Chelsea Kelly-reif
Senior Director Of Engineering at Coforma
Davis, California, United States
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Top SchoolChelsea Kelly-reif is a Senior Director of Engineering with a decade of experience building high-stakes government platforms used by millions, currently leading 53 engineers at Coforma to deliver state and federal digital services. She blends executive leadership with hands-on technical work—shaping architecture, debugging production, and driving AI-enabled products like New Jersey’s My Career NJ that serves 1.2M residents and earned national recognition. Chelsea has grown engineering organizations (36% expansion), promoted multiple leaders, and helped secure $74M in contracts through pragmatic technical strategy. Her background modernizing legacy mainframes, building regulated systems across energy and public safety, and shipping ML-backed recommendation and NLP services gives her rare depth in both compliance-heavy environments (FedRAMP, FISMA, Section 508) and user-centered design. An openly trans, lesbian, autistic leader, she prioritizes inclusion, psychological safety, and accessibility as design, not just compliance.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of OregonMaster of Science - MS Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Software Engineering at California State University, Fullerton
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Github Skills (51)
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csharp7
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Github contributions (5)
newjersey/dol-mcnj-main
Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
One-stop shop for individuals exploring career advice, training opportunities, and funding to further their employment potential across the State of New Jersey
Contributions:155 reviews, 96 commits, 1336 PRs in 3 months
crosswordreactrecoiljsseekingdatamining
ChelseaKR/family-greenhouse
Apr 2023 - May 2023
Allows households to take care of household plants with each other
Contributions:28 PRs, 116 pushes, 34 branches in 24 days
gardeninghousekeepingplants
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