Chris Kelly

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Engineering Leader and Technologist @ Relay Payments
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Atlanta Metropolitan Area, United States, United States
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About Chris Kelly

I've built full-stack web apps, a software simulation of a complex switching fabric, a 24 hour bicycle race, teams of software developers, and an automated datacenter.People know me to be positive and direct, early, and the person with the plan.Want to work on hard problems with good people, or just go mountain biking? Get in touch!

Chris Kelly's Current Company Details
Relay Payments

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Engineering Leader and Technologist
Chris Kelly Work Experience Details
  • Relay Payments
    Software Architect
    Relay Payments Sep 2023 - Present
    Atlanta, Georgia, Us
  • Ithought
    Owner
    Ithought 1999 - Present
    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.
  • Wandrer
    Board Member
    Wandrer Oct 2020 - Present
  • Statype
    Senior Software Engineer
    Statype May 2022 - Aug 2023
    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.
  • Zenput
    Director Of Engineering
    Zenput May 2020 - Apr 2022
    Boston, Massachusetts, Us
    Leading the engineering teams responsible for the core Zenput product and platform.
  • Bridgewater Associates
    Technology General Manager
    Bridgewater Associates Mar 2018 - Apr 2020
    Westport, Connecticut, Us
    Managing teams of software engineers including Reporting/CRM/ETL, Infrastructure, and Scala.
  • Salesforce
    Senior Manager, Software Engineering
    Salesforce Jun 2016 - Feb 2018
    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
  • Salesforce
    Software Engineering Manager
    Salesforce Jan 2015 - Jun 2016
    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.
  • Big Nerd Ranch
    Director Of Internal Operations
    Big Nerd Ranch Nov 2012 - Jan 2015
    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.
  • Big Nerd Ranch
    Methodologist And Software Developer
    Big Nerd Ranch Aug 2010 - Nov 2012
    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.
  • Gallery
    Project Manager
    Gallery Feb 2004 - Jun 2014
    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.
  • Faster Mustache
    Webmaster And Race Team Member
    Faster Mustache 2005 - 2012
    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.
  • Sugarcrm
    Operations Engineer, Noc Manager
    Sugarcrm Jan 2008 - Jul 2010
    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.
  • Georgia Institute Of Technology
    Graduate Research Assistant
    Georgia Institute Of Technology Jan 2006 - Dec 2007
    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.
  • Google
    Platforms Engineering Intern
    Google Jun 2007 - Aug 2007
    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.
  • The Fulcrum Group
    Security Engineer
    The Fulcrum Group Sep 2004 - Feb 2006
    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.
  • Georgia Institute Of Technology
    Resident Assistant
    Georgia Institute Of Technology Aug 2002 - May 2003
    Atlanta, Georgia , Us

Chris Kelly Education Details

  • Georgia Institute Of Technology
    Georgia Institute Of Technology
    Computer Science
  • Georgia Institute Of Technology
    Georgia Institute Of Technology
    Computer Science

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Chris Kelly attended Georgia Institute Of Technology, Georgia Institute Of Technology.

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