Chris Kelly
Senior Software Engineer at Barndoor AI
Portland, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Kelly is a senior software engineer with 17 years of experience building full-stack web applications for startups and large enterprises, now focused on governing AI agent behavior at Barndoor AI. He pairs a strong Python/Django and JavaScript background (React, Backbone) with practical backend experience in Ruby on Rails, Go, and cloud platforms to deliver merchant systems, onboarding flows, and analytics dashboards. Chris has led distributed engineering teams, shipped payment and data pipelines across AWS and Google Cloud, and re-architected APIs at scale (Echo Nest, HubSpot). Based in Portland, Maine, he combines product-minded engineering with hands-on implementation, often bridging legacy migrations and modern frontend UX. A practical polyglot, he’s comfortable moving between MFC/C++ system work early in his career to today’s AI governance stack—showing adaptability and long-term technical ownership.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (26)
twitter-api9
editing9
django8
docker-desktop8
stacktrace8
twitter8
error-handler7
sdk7
python7
jekyll6
django-oauth5
utm5
ruby5
colima5
virtual-machine4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ckelly/django-resume
Jan 2011 - Jul 2018
Django app for presenting and editing a resume
Contributions:2 releases, 14 commits, 1 PR in 7 years 6 months
pythondjangopresentingeditingdjango-app
ckelly/ckelly.github.com
Feb 2017 - Nov 2024
My Website
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 29 pushes in 7 years 10 months
jekyll
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