Helen Keeney

VP of Engineering

San Jose, California, United States28 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led a team of 30 engineers at Google.
  • Executed critical reliability improvements for Google Search.
  • Established team vision and improved productivity.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on reliability engineering and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Reliability EngineeringTeam Management

Other Skills

Cloud ComputingDistributed SystemsHigh Availability ArchitectureSoftware DevelopmentLeadershipEmotional LaborRuby on RailsWeb DevelopmentLinuxJavaScriptJavaNetworking

Experience

28 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Google

Senior Engineering Manager

Dec 2017Oct 2025 · 7 yrs 10 mos

  • Managed a team of 30 engineers, including 3 managers
  • Owned execution of multiple critical reliability improvements to Google's Fleet Management Software
  • Established Vision for the team, keeping them focussed on meeting the next generation of business requirements for Google and Google Cloud
  • Grew the team to meet critical time to market and reliability goals
  • Provided continued career coaching and guidance, increasing the productivity and effectiveness of the team
  • Owned key reliability projects for Google Search
  • Dramatically improved team health for both my direct team and for the broader Search organization, by introducing processes to address burnout and avoid ineffective projects
Cloud ComputingDistributed SystemsHigh Availability ArchitectureReliability EngineeringTeam Management

Github

Senior Engineering Manager – Community & Safety

Nov 2015Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Built a cross functional development team from scratch
  • Organized an industry wide conference to bring together policy, support, and engineering professionals in the trust & safety space
  • Lead a team that consistently ships impactful changes
  • Worked across organizational boundaries to ensure our product designs line up with trust & safety policies and support needs

On-site.com

Director of Software Development – Acting

Feb 2013Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Campbell, CA

  • Lead a team of 22 engineers and overseeing the conversion of a large legacy application into a Service Oriented Architecture.
  • Implemented development process changes to increase code flow and reduce risk
  • Worked with the product team to improve the quality of their work
  • Coordinated with department heads to catch and address issues early
  • Managed engineer assignments to balance skill sets, personality, and business needs
  • Worked with engineers to ensure they enjoyed their work and our environment
  • Increased the speed and efficiency of feature implementation
  • Eliminated barriers to developer success
  • Cultivated a culture of trust

One medical group

Software Engineer

Aug 2007Feb 2013 · 5 yrs 6 mos

  • Developed medical record keeping software.
  • Coordinated development process
  • Designed key portions of the data architecture
  • Designed and implemented Clinical Record keeping software
  • Set up and maintained cloud based servers on Amazon EC2 and Chef
  • Designed and implemented task tracking software and supporting integrations
  • Designed and implemented document routing and filing software
  • Designed and implemented Clinical Order workflow and software

Panasas

Software Engineer

Jun 2006Aug 2007 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Software development for a high performance network storage device. The system provided high performance, high availability storage for massively parallel applications.
  • Ported Linux network code to FreeBSD
  • Added GDB over UDP support to the FreeBSD 6.x kernel
  • Troubleshooted and resolved various network anomalies

Lockheed martin

Senior Software Engineer

May 2001Jun 2006 · 5 yrs 1 mo

  • Developed software for an embedded real-time computer system on the LM900c Spacecraft Bus. The system had very tight reliability and performance constraints.
  • Designed, developed, deployed, and maintained several Device Drivers
  • Implemented APIs to provide for the Application team
  • Ported the IO and OS layers of our software to the SPARC
  • Extensively supported the Applications and Device Driver teams
  • Brought up hardware with initial software builds
  • Extensive work with a serial kernel debugger

Compaq corporate research

Software Engineer

Oct 2000Mar 2001 · 5 mos

  • Developed custom extensions to a third party content management system. Provided additional technical consultation ensuring the compliance of third party code with W3C specifications.

Iteach, inc.

Software Engineer

Jan 2000Jan 2000 · 0 mo

  • Maintained TeacherFreebies.com. Deployed bulk email system for TeacherFreebies subscribers.
  • Performed data analysis and reporting.

Collabria, inc.

Software Engineer

Jan 1997Jan 1999 · 2 yrs

  • Performed a large portion of the initial code development. Re-architected of key portions of the site.

Bell microsystems

Web Master

Jan 1995Jan 1997 · 2 yrs

Education

San José State University

BS — Computer Science

Jan 1996Jan 2000

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