Summary
Donovan Kelly is a pragmatic CTO and software engineer with nine years of experience building secure, production-grade systems across healthcare, aerospace, and fintech. At Arcanum he modernized a legacy codebase, boosting algorithm performance up to 20x while implementing containerization, CI/CD, and mobile clients for an MFA authentication product. His background spans machine learning and LLM-driven Text-to-SQL improvements at Cigna, vector search and smart-contract work at Real Vision, and satellite instrument software and image pipelines at Lockheed Martin. He combines a strong security-first mindset with hands-on engineering—often moving projects from prototype to hardened deployment—and has a track record of reducing latency and hallucinations in LLM chains. Based in Little Rock, he pairs academic training in computer engineering with a continual focus on applying AI and cybersecurity to tangible business problems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Engineering at Cañada College
University of California Santa Cruz