Reliable
by design.

I'm Keith Huster, Senior Software Engineer II and former Team Lead II on Olo's Software Infrastructure team. For 15+ years I've architected and operated distributed .NET platforms: processing billions of transactions a year at better than 99.9% availability, drove a platform-wide move to Kubernetes and modern CI/CD via GitHub Actions, and developed shared libraries used by 100+ engineers. I've led the systems and the team that runs them, and I'm looking for a Staff Engineering or Engineering Management role where reliability is the product.

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>99.9%

availability on services handling billions of transactions a year

100+

engineers building on platform libraries I own

36+

US patents, most as lead or sole inventor

2,745 mi

Tour Divide finisher, 2025: self-supported, 27 days

01 · Experience

From medical devices to cloud platforms

Formally trained electrical and software engineer. Twenty-four years across medical devices, EdTech, FinTech and restaurant-platform infrastructure, the last eight at Olo, all of it shipping systems other people depend on every day.

012002 to 2014Hill-RomSoftware Engineering Specialist, New Product Development
022014 to 2015Curriculum LoftSoftware Developer, Full Stack Development
032015 to 2018ConfluenceSenior Software Engineer, New Product Development
042018 to 2021OloSenior Software Engineer II, Menu Team
052021 to 2024OloSenior Software Engineer II, Software Infrastructure
062024 to 2025OloTeam Lead II, Software Infrastructure
072025 to nowOloSenior Software Engineer II, Software Infrastructure

2002 – 2014 · Sunman, IN
Hill-Rom
Software Engineering Specialist. Embedded firmware, TCP/IP gateways, hospital-bed electronics for the VersaCare and TotalCare lines, and nurse communication systems. Two-time "Patent of the Year" and "President's Innovation" award winner.
2014 – 2018 · Remote
Curriculum Loft, then Confluence
Transition from electronics/embedded firmware to SaaS software development. Full-stack EduTech and FinTech applications in ASP.NET MVC, C#, React, Relay and GraphQL, plus production support.
2018 – 2021 · Remote
Olo · Menu team
Senior Software Engineer II. Menu structure and pricing tools used by tens of thousands of restaurant managers, and the Menu Import Service microservice carved out of the monolith.
2021 – Now · Remote
Olo · Software Infrastructure
Senior Software Engineer II, then Team Lead II (2024 to 2025) for a six-engineer team, now back on the Staff track: focused on reliability, Kubernetes, CI/CD and cross-team RFCs.

02 · Impact

Results, not job descriptions

SEG 01
Five core services migrated to Kubernetes
Core team member involved in Olo's Kubernetes migration project development. Handled the migration of five core services from EC2 to Amazon EKS, introducing HPA and KEDA autoscaling so peak traffic scales out automatically instead of paging an engineer.
5
core services migrated to Kubernetes
SEG 02
CI/CD handed back to the teams
Migrated approximately ten services and libraries from centralized TeamCity projects to team-managed GitHub Actions, removing a delivery bottleneck so each team owns and ships its own pipeline.
~10
CI/CD pipelines decentralized to GitHub Actions
SEG 03
$22K a month off the AWS bill
Led a system-optimization initiative for the Payload Logging Service that reduced AWS S3 upload costs by more than $22K per month while preserving the data incident responders rely on.
$22K+
saved every month
SEG 04
Menu ingestion decoupled from the monolith
Designed and built the Menu Import Service, a microservice extraction from Olo's legacy monolith, plus associated POS and menu integrations for Panda Express, Denny's and other major restaurant brands.
10,000s
of restaurant managers served
SEG 05
Safer deploys, faster recovery
Implemented LaunchDarkly feature flags and centralized configuration in Consul across multiple core services, raising deployment success rates and cutting incident MTTR.
Lower MTTR
safer deploys, faster recovery

C# · F# · .NET
AWS · EKS · HPA · KEDA
Terraform · Consul · GitOps
GitHub Actions · CI/CD
Datadog · Sumo Logic · Raygun
React · GraphQL · TypeScript
MSSQL · PostgreSQL

03 · Leadership

Six engineers. Eighteen months. Zero high-severity incidents.

From April 2024 to September 2025, I managed Olo's six-engineer Software Infrastructure team as Team Lead II without leaving the code. I hired and onboarded two Eastern European engineers, ran planning, and handled individual one-on-ones. When senior leadership mandated 24/7 support coverage, I designed the team's first L2 on-call practice as a weekly rotation calibrated for engineer well-being. The team sustained greater than 99.9% availability with zero high-severity production incidents during that time.

I've mentored more than 20 engineers over my career, and I set technical direction through RFCs and design reviews rather than mandates; the shared libraries I own are relied on by 100+ engineers across nearly every team at Olo. I'm equally effective as a Staff-level IC or as the Engineering Manager clearing the path for the team.

6
engineers managed as a hands-on lead
0
high-severity production incidents during my tenure
2
remote engineers hired and onboarded
20+
engineers mentored across my career

04 · Patents

US patents, most as lead or sole inventor

Before cloud platforms, I spent twelve years (2002 to 2014) in New Product Development at Hill-Rom, designing electronics, embedded firmware and network gateways for hospital beds and helping take numerous products to market. That work produced 36+ US patents, most as lead or sole inventor, two "Patent of the Year" awards and the "President's Innovation Award", and a lasting standard for what "production-ready" means when patients depend on it.

M.Sc. Software Engineering · Drexel UniversityB.Sc. Electrical Engineering · Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

05 · Beyond work

More about me. Beyond the office.

Banff, AB → Antelope Wells, NM · 2025

Tour Divide finisher

Cycling 2,745 miles along the Continental Divide, self-supported, in 27 days: roughly a hundred miles or rough, rugged terrain per day. Constant planning, troubleshooting, and pacing with nobody else to hand the problems to. It's the same discipline I bring to a multi-quarter migration or a 3 a.m. incident.

Mile 0 · Baff, AB (Canada)Mile 2,745 · Antelope Wells, NM (Mexico Border)

sunmanfire.com
Volunteer firefighter, Lieutenant
Twelve years (2004 – 2016) on the department, promoted to Lieutenant. Calm, clear communication under immense pressure is a skill I learned long before my first production incident. Firefighting taught me to stay calm, assess the situation, and make decisions quickly and effectively.
github.com/husterk
HomeLab
A declarative, GitOps-driven lab on Proxmox VE, OPNsense, Talos Linux Kubernetes and Terraform with Atlantis. Managing a home lab is a great way to learn new technologies, stay sharp, and experiment with new ideas without risking production systems. It's also a great way to learn how to troubleshoot and debug complex systems, which is a skill that translates well to my work as a software engineer.
KeithAndLindsey.com
Travel blog
Ghost CMS blog site with a fully custom theme, a GitHub Actions pipeline and two Cloudflare Workers handling webhooks and sitemaps. I built the site to share our travel experiences and to continue to hone my web development skills, including front-end design, back-end development, and deployment. The site is a great way to showcase my skills and to share my passion for travel with others.

Reliable by design.

From medical devices to cloud platforms

Results, not job descriptions

Six engineers. Eighteen months. Zero high-severity incidents.

US patents, most as lead or sole inventor

More about me. Beyond the office.

Hiring a Staff Engineer or an Engineering Manager? Let's talk.

Reliable
by design.