Don Kelly is a Production Engineering Manager in Ottawa with 16+ years of experience building high-performance, distributed systems and mentoring engineering teams. He blends deep systems-level craftsmanship—hand-coding servers in C and architecting SMACK-based distributed processing—with a long-standing passion for developer growth and elegant, maintainable design. Don has led architecture and delivery at organizations ranging from Shopify to a free-software civic rules engine (Xalgorithms Foundation) and runs a consulting practice that frames technical problems as coherent stories. He is equally at home reviving legacy codebases and prototyping with modern mobile and microservice stacks, and he treats software as both engineering and art. A mathematician by training, he brings a disciplined, inspectable approach to quality that emphasizes longevity over clever short-term fixes.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Math, BSc Math at St. Francis Xavier University
Core IoR Compute Platform. This was the Interlibr we worked on until 2020 Spring. We took a new direction after that point. This repository is preserved as a resource that allows us to reference things as they were then.
Contributions:36 PRs, 101 pushes, 38 branches in 2 years 8 months
This documentation repository is out-of-date. Newer documentation is hosted using Jekyll from https://github.com/Xalgorithms/xa-docs.
Contributions:127 commits, 25 PRs, 115 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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Don Kelly - Production Engineering Manager at Strangeware