I'm Davis Keene, a software engineer from the Greater Boston Area now living in New York City. It's a pleasure to meet you!

These days, I'm at Handshake, helping to make AI smarter and safer for everyone. I work on evaluation and annotation tooling that lets researchers accurately measure frontier model performance, making sure that AI labs have the post-training data they need to steer newer models in the right direction.

Before this, I spent five years at a startup called Jellyfish, building the leading engineering management platform. That product experience of owning end-to-end UX and building reliable systems shapes how I approach trustworthy AI today: clear feedback loops, thoughtful experiment design, and tools that put quality and context first. Jellyfish was my first job in tech, and I couldn't have asked for a better launching pad. It's amazing to have worked with so many brilliant people every day on something that I find so important.

In my spare time, I enjoy yo-yoing, drinking oat milk lattes and matcha, and watching TV shows like Mr. Robot, Severance, The Rehearsal, and Ted Lasso. I also love listening to music by Two Door Cinema Club, Porter Robinson, The Marías, Still Woozy, Tobi Lou, Balu Brigada, and Foster the People.

I also write my thoughts down occasionally over on my blog.

Long ago, I graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in Computer Science and Statistics (May 2022). While in college, I tried to leave my school better than I found it by:

• Co-founding an organization to create open-source software for students.
• Running a 501(c)(3) non-profit to support student entrepreneurs.
• Serving as the Head Course Assistant for the largest undergraduate CS course in the Midwest.
• Connecting with professors, meeting wonderful life-long friends, and graduating—in the midst of a global pandemic.

I’m always looking for thoughtful challenges and good people to build with. If you have a project or idea you’d like to discuss, feel free to reach out. Thanks for stopping by!