Alex Kelley
Founder & CEO at Garibaldi Capital Advisors
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Kelley is a seasoned technology executive and founder with 25+ years of global experience blending business strategy and hands-on software development in spatial computing and AI. As Vice President at Garibaldi Capital Advisors and founder of ADK Partners he advises and scales companies across M&E and AEC, pairing product, sales and marketing expertise with technical delivery. His engineering work spans functional languages (Clojure, Haskell, Elixir, PureScript) and systems-level contributions—he’s an active open-source contributor with backend fixes to the well-known Chia blockchain project. A fluent Japanese speaker who has led teams across North America and Asia, he combines enterprise deal-making experience at Autodesk and BitTorrent with startup operational chops, including a successful acquisition at MatterMachine. Alex also writes a popular blog teaching functional programming, signaling a rare blend of public technical leadership and senior corporate strategy. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science and splits time between San Francisco and Tokyo.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityWeb Development Immersive, Full Stack Software Development, Web Development Immersive, Full Stack Software Development at General Assembly
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (4)
blockchain10
mpo10
pool10
python10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Chia-Network/chia-blockchain
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Chia blockchain python implementation (full node, farmer, harvester, timelord, and wallet)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:804 reviews, 491 commits, 315 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the codebase through bug fixes, and code improvements. Their contributions range from fixing typos and formatting errors to removing precompiled generators, and addressing dependency updates. The user's work involved modifications to files related to cost calculation, consensus, and wallet puzzles, suggesting a focus on core backend logic and infrastructure.
chia-blockchainpythonwalletspython-blockchainwallet
aqk/aqk.github.com
Aug 2019 - Feb 2024
Contributions:12 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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