Adam Kelso
Lead Backend Engineer at BlastCloud LLC
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Kelso is a pragmatic lead backend engineer and independent full‑stack contractor with nearly 16 years of experience designing and shipping SaaS and custom web applications. Based in Austin, he combines hands‑on development (PHP/Laravel, Livewire, Vue/React, TALL stack) with product and design sensibility to rapidly prototype MVPs and deliver polished, brand‑consistent products. He’s led backend efforts at scale—building APIs, ETL pipelines, and integrations—and has driven measurable business outcomes like $65M+ in reduced property tax valuations and major UX and operations improvements for clients. Comfortable as a temporary CTO or solo founder, he balances technical debt, security (including partial HIPAA implementations), and user research to prioritize features that reduce support load and increase win rates. Outside work he’s a husband, father, and fantasy novel enthusiast, a hint of the curiosity that fuels his continual tooling and process improvements.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. English Graphic Design Marketing, B.A. English Graphic Design Marketing at Oklahoma Christian University
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Github Skills (51)
seo10
admin10
testing10
laravel10
forms10
guzzle10
phpunit10
php10
sdk10
bundle9
cms9
form-builder9
livewire9
vuepress9
filamentphp9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
blastcloud/chassis
Jul 2019 - Jan 2022
A framework for building declarative testing libraries for PHP / HTTP request packages.
Contributions:13 releases, 1 review, 29 commits in 2 years 7 months
blastcloud/hybrid
Jun 2019 - Dec 2020
Power up your app or SDK with a testing library specifically for Symfony/HttpClient
Contributions:12 releases, 38 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 5 months
testingphpsymfony-bundlesdkhttpclient
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