Chris Kelly Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Owner and operator of small web hosting company. Turned one tower under my desk with one website into a rack of Dell/Cisco equipment in a datacenter, then into an automated cloud infrastructure using Ubuntu/Git/Cloudflare/Netlify/LetsEncrypt/DigitalOcean.

Wearing many hats including technical lead on platform/infrastructure/security. Hands-on-keys with terraform, aws (including RDS, Security Hub, ECR, ECS, IAM, EventBridge), python, rails, docker. Ran out of cash and shut down before we were able to get product-market fit.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Leading the engineering teams responsible for the core Zenput product and platform.

Westport, Connecticut, Us

Managing teams of software engineers including Reporting/CRM/ETL, Infrastructure, and Scala.

San Francisco, California, Us

I led the Marketing Insights program on Salesforce's B2B Marketing Automation product Pardot. My 4 engineering teams built: B2B Marketing Analytics, Salesforce Campaign Alignment, Customizable Reporting, Multi-Scoring, Campaign Influence Multi Touch Attribution, Internationalization, portions of Einstein Account Based Marketing, and a handful of other things. We also owned the Pardot API, Scoring and Grading, and the Pardot Google Adwords connector.https://trailhead.salesforce.com/me/ckdake

San Francisco, California, Us

Leading the New Markets program on the Pardot product, I hired 13 people and built 3 scrum teams. We focused on adding enterprise functionality to Pardot, and owned components including Scoring and Grading, Reporting, Asset Organization, and Globalization.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Highgroove merged with Big Nerd Ranch to form an 85 person company in late 2012. I acted as Chief Operations Officer for the first 3 months of the merger to get everyone moved in. I then managed the Internal Operations team, responsible for building and managing internal tools that ran the business as we grew past 120 people.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Highgroove Studios. Hired with no Ruby on Rails experience as a Ruby on Rails developer, I quickly mastered the technology to build a bunch of great (and profitable) applications for our clients. As we grew from 5 towards 30 people, my role morphed into a ‘Methodologist’ where I helped other developers and our clients work together and effectively do Agile development. I taught several classes on Agile Development at both startups and Fortune 100 companies.

Project Manager and Developer for the open source Gallery project.Responsible for coordinating a team of developers around the world to develop the project and put out new feature releases and security updates; managing patches, bug fixes, and feature requests; and writing some code. XML-RPC module Developer, Google Summer Of Code mentor, and OpenUsability Season of Usability mentor.

Ran http://fastermustache.org/, raced a lot of races: http://ckdake.com/bikes/raceresults.html. Organized a 24 hour race 5 years in a row, peaking with ~350 participants.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

My first full-time job out of graduate school, I worked remotely to lead the charge to take SugarCRM’s datacenter from a patchwork of hand configuration to an automated (with Puppet), monitored, and scalable infrastructure. Before I left SugarCRM, I was leading a team of 3 with an annual operating budget of ~$600k and a 24/7 production environment.

Atlanta, Georgia , Us

Graduate Research Assistant for the team in OIT-ART working on CPR: the Campus-Wide Network Performance Monitoring and Recovery system. Responsible for: managing and writing management software for the distributed network of nodes, writing code to compute statistics and detect anomalies in performance data, facilitate interaction with other groups to allow them to use the network including packing software and distributing it to the machines.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Software Engineering intern working on Networking in the Platforms Team at Google. ("The Platforms Team builds Google's computing platform: the datacenters, servers, networking and system software that powers all of Google's services. Networking Engineers work on projects involving next generation networking systems and architecture, distributed systems, and routing.") I did a lot of neat things in Python with threading, SWIG, and unit tests. My primary project was a simulation tool designed to help with training and the development of monitoring software.

Us

Responsible for implementing and maintaining scalable network solutions utilizing Windows Server technology as well as Linux and specalized networking hardware such as SonicWall firewalls. Implemented a high-availability tool for BIND in perl, Active Directory based authentication in Linux, pam password complexity checking module in C for AIX/Solaris/Linux, and a customized e-mail spam filtering and virus scanning appliance utilizing perl and an assortment of pieces of open source software.

Atlanta, Georgia , Us

Masters, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science