Chris Kelly
Software Architect at ithought
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Kelly is a software architect and seasoned engineering leader with 17 years of experience building full-stack web applications, automated datacenters, and resilient cloud platforms. He has led teams and shipped core product and infrastructure at companies from startups to enterprises—most recently as Software Architect at Relay Payments and previously as Director of Engineering at Zenput and senior roles at Salesforce and Bridgewater. Hands-on with Terraform, AWS, Docker, Python, Rails and long-term operator of his own web-hosting company, he blends deep infrastructure automation experience with product-focused delivery. An early contributor and maintainer in open-source projects like Gallery3, he’s equally at home debugging CSS tags as designing scalable systems. Known for being positive, direct, and reliably the person with the plan, he balances hard technical work with a penchant for organizing endurance bicycle races and mountain biking.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (16)
php10
backend10
kohana10
back-end-development10
file-management9
html9
server-configuration8
error-handling8
databases8
css8
database8
database-connection8
front-end-development7
json7
imagemagick6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
gallery/gallery3
Nov 2008 - Apr 2011
The simplest, most intuitive way to host your photos on your website.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris made various contributions to the Gallery3 project, including updating URLs, improving error handling, and modifying configuration settings. They adjusted the graphics toolkit logo images and corrected accidental style changes. Additionally, the user addressed a bug by adding a missing CSS tag and added JSON and filter as requirements.
hostphoto-gallerysimplestintuitivegallery
daveworth/not-so-secret-sauce
Feb 2012 - Mar 2013
Contributions:46 commits in 1 year
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