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 (41)
cms10
seo10
admin10
testing10
livewire10
laravel10
phpunit10
guzzle10
php10
ui-framework10
vue9
vuepress9
testing-library9
symfony8
bundle8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
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
http-clientsymfonytesting-libraryphphttpclient
blastcloud/guzzler
Feb 2019 - Jan 2022
Supercharge your app or SDK with a testing library specifically for Guzzle
Contributions:24 releases, 118 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 11 months
guzzletesting-libraryphpguzzlehttpphpunit
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