Summary
Christian Kelly is a seasoned system administrator with over 15 years of hands-on experience designing, automating, and operating customer-facing infrastructure across cloud and co-located data centers. Based in Dublin, he has led and built ops teams, introduced configuration management and CI/CD pipelines to replace error-prone manual processes, and scaled services from startup game clusters to multi-product enterprise platforms. Comfortable across the stack, he moves fluidly between database tuning, writing deployment automation, and advising product teams on operability and fault tolerance. Notable achievements include shipping zero-downtime deployments, overhauling monitoring and logging, and reducing release times from day-long manual efforts to reliable automated pipelines. Colleagues value him for combining practical engineering with stakeholder-focused delivery and for a maker’s curiosity that keeps him switching domains to solve the next hard problem.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Computer Science, Bsc, Computer Science at University College Dublin
St. Andrews