Summary
Chris Kelly is an engineering and product leader with 14 years of experience building developer-focused tools and scaling teams at the intersection of cloud, DevOps, and AI. Based in San Francisco, he has led technical and go-to-market strategy as CTO and GM at FireHydrant and directed open source and community programs at GitHub and Salesforce. He combines hands-on engineering with product, marketing, and operations experience to ship reliable platforms (including a 99.99% uptime incident management service) and relaunch major developer conferences. An active technical storyteller and frequent speaker, he co-founded the TODO Group to improve corporate open source practices. Chris’s background in both publishing technology and philosophy gives him a rare blend of communication, process discipline, and ethical perspective when shaping developer ecosystems. Now at Augment Code, he focuses on developer experience and product work that amplifies developer productivity.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.) Philosophy & Ethics, Master of Arts (M.A.) Philosophy & Ethics at Biola University
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo