Sam Keen

Sam Keen is a seasoned technology architect with over twenty-five years of experience building high-performance software systems at AWS, Lululemon, and Nike. His career spans from transforming monolithic systems to event-driven architectures to implementing Infrastructure as Code practices that significantly enhanced reliability and scalability for major retail platforms.

Currently focused on enterprise AI systems at AWS, Sam is innovating with LLMs and agentic frameworks to advance content generation and knowledge management solutions. He also shares his expertise through community leadership as the cofounder of Portland AI Engineers and through his technical writing, which explores the intersection of software engineering principles and emerging technologies.