Digital Anthro is the creative practice of Nathan Keeys, a creative technologist and educator specialized in front-end software development, human-centered design and accessibility.

Digital Anthro has worked with companies and organizations across North America and Japan, providing consulting, workshops, design and web development services.

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Contributions


  • 08/2022 - (Present) - Coforma, LLC - Software Engineer

  • 01/2017 - (Present) - Digital Anthro, LLC - Founder + Creative Technologist

  • 12/2019 - 10/22 - Accenture Federal Services - Software Engineer

  • 10/2019 - 12/2019 - Westat - (Contract) Frontend Developer

  • 08/2017 -10/2019 - RP3 Agency - Creative Technologist

Featured Work

CarpeDM Dating Member Portal

Founding Full-stack Engineer: CarpeDM Dating is an DC-based dating app and startup that caters to professional black women. During the initial development of the mobile application, I worked along side a 2 person design studio to build their web-based member portal and marketing website.

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FBI Jobs Website

Frontend Drupal Lead: While working for a major consulting company, I was contracted to work with the FBI on their jobs website redesign. I lead a small team of frontend developers and worked along side the design team to implement best practices and standards on the frontend such as web accessibility, responsiveness and performance optimization.

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Retirement Services Benefit Tool

Frontend Engineer: Janus is a modernized retirement benefit calculations tool for OPM Retirement Services. The platform helps OPM RS manage approximately 2.7 million annuitants. I worked on the team as a frontend engineer to help build a complex form submission-based experience.

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VA Patient Appointment Calendar App

Software Engineer: A Veterans Affairs internal clinican-facing application for viewing patient appointments. I contributed as a frontend focused engineer on this project building UI, handling incoming patient information, and implementing accessibility features to meet WCAG 2.1 compliance.

Department of Energy Website

Frontend Drupal Developer

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RP3 Agency Website

Creative Technologist/Frontend Developer: While at RP3, I contributed in building the frontend of their current website. I also worked closely with the design team to fine-tune the visual designs, mockups and wireframes before the prototyping and development phases.

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Noisegen.io

Creative Developement: As a self-intiated project, I built an award-winning experimental website that allows users to create art with the Perlin Noise algorithm.

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Workshops

  • 06/12/2024

    Three.js Fundamentals - The Collab Lab - Remote

  • 11/10/2023

    Creative Coding Workshop (Three.js) - Women Who Code (now WiSE Women in Software Engineering JP) - Ginza Tokyo, JP

  • 08/2021 - 10/2022

    Fullstack Bootcamp - 2U Bootcamps - Arlington, VA

  • 01/2018 - 03/2018

    Mentor - AIGA SHINE Mentorship - Washington DC