Conlain Kelly
Senior Technical Staff at Karana Dynamics
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolConlain Kelly is a senior technical staff engineer based in Denver with a decade of experience building high-performance simulation and systems software. He holds a PhD and MS in Computational Science and Engineering from Georgia Tech and a BS from UW–Madison, combining deep numerical modeling expertise with practical C++ systems engineering. His open-source contributions include backend work on ProjectChrono—a respected multiphysics C++ engine—and filesystem refactors for SmartDeviceLink, demonstrating attention to both performance-critical code and maintainable dependency management. Conlain has bridged research and production through roles at NREL, NASA JPL, and industry internships, moving from academic simulation research to applied engineering at Karana Dynamics. Known for improving build infrastructure, test metrics, and search-enabled documentation, he brings a rare blend of research rigor and pragmatic tooling improvements that accelerate team productivity.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Applied Mathematics Engineering and Physics; Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Applied Mathematics Engineering and Physics; Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonMaster of Science - MS Computational Science and Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (11)
filesystem10
javascript10
c-language10
cpp10
website-development10
cprogramming-language10
boost10
cplus10
fileio10
html9
jekyll8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
smartdevicelink/sdl_core
May 2018 - Aug 2018
SmartDeviceLink In-Vehicle Software and Sample HMI
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:107 commits, 22 PRs, 84 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Conlain's primary focus involved refactoring and porting existing file system utilities to the Boost library. This included modifying existing file system code within the `src/components/utils/src/file_system.cc` file, and its related header file. The work appears to be aimed at improving the project's reliance on external dependencies like Boost and updating existing functionality.
connectivitysmartdevicelinksdlc-plus-plusvehicle
projectchrono/chrono
May 2016 - Jun 2019
High-performance C++ library for multiphysics and multibody dynamics simulations
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:128 commits, 6 PRs, 106 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Conlain made changes to the website's include files. They updated the scripts used for plotting charts and included dependencies for lunr, which is used for search functionality. In addition, the user moved stats to the status page and made modifications to the header and search form to accommodate a search bar.
c-plus-plussimulationroboticssimulationsmultibody
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