David Kelly
Sr Software Engineer at Couchbase
Boise, Idaho, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Kelly is a senior software engineer with 13+ years of hands-on experience designing and optimizing scalable, distributed systems across cloud platforms, VR, and big data. He earned early recognition at Oracle for horizontally scaling a full-text search engine (holding a patent) and today leads advanced LLM implementations, vector database integrations, and high-performance backend work at Couchbase. David pairs deep systems knowledge with practical DevOps and CI stability improvements—his open-source contributions include stabilizing the Couchbase Java client and improving Spring Data Couchbase compatibility for Java 11. As a former Director of Engineering, he mentors teams in test-driven development and rigorous code review while guiding architectural transitions from vertical scaling to cloud-native distributed designs. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who blends research-grade physics training with production engineering discipline. Outside of work he channels the same discipline into amateur boxing and caring for his pit bull, Diesel.
13 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoB. S. Physics, B. S. Physics at San Diego State University
Github Skills (24)
javascript10
couchbase10
spring10
rxjavafx10
testing10
spring-data10
user-interface10
cicd10
java10
javas10
rxjava10
maven10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
back-end-development9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
spring-projects/spring-data-couchbase
Jun 2019 - Nov 2019
Provides support to increase developer productivity in Java when using Couchbase. Uses familiar Spring concepts such as a template classes for core API usage and lightweight repository style data access.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 30 PRs, 11 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the stability of the Spring Data Couchbase library. Their work involved addressing issues related to Java 11 compatibility, cast errors in the `deleteAll` functionality, and exceptions raised when buckets are empty. They also worked on improving the RxJavaCouchbaseTemplate and ensuring the return of generated IDs, and resolving thread safety issues. Additionally, they migrated the project to use Couchbase SDK 3 and made several test improvements.
spring-bootspring-datacouchbasespringjava
yozlet/interface
Aug 2016 - May 2019
Test platform for various render and interface tests for next-gen VR system
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:117 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of a VR system's interface. Their contributions included modifications to JavaScript code for handling sold-out items in a marketplace, and implementing updates to the wallet feature, specifically, send money and transaction history functionality within the QML interface. Additionally, the user contributed to backend logic by updating the commerce ledger with sender and recipient information for transaction history. They also addressed minor issues and improved the display of timestamps.
rendervirtual-realitytest-platformopenvropenxr
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