Eoin Kelly
Architecture Lead at Ackama
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolEoin Kelly is an Architecture Lead with 13 years of hands-on experience building and operating web and cloud systems from Wellington, New Zealand. He blends deep Ruby on Rails expertise with front-end and DevOps skills—Docker, AWS, SQL and containerisation—earned through senior roles at Rabid and Ackama and a long track record as a developer and founder. As an active open-source contributor he helped modernise the widely used devise-two-factor gem, adding Rails-encrypted OTP handling while preserving compatibility for older apps. He combines pragmatic engineering with leadership as Head of Development and Architecture Lead, regularly moving teams from prototype to secure, production-grade services. Trained originally in electronic engineering, he brings a hardware-minded attention to reliability and systems thinking to software architecture.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BEE, Electronic Engineering, BEE, Electronic Engineering at University College Cork
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Github Skills (15)
devise10
ruby-rails10
rails10
two-factor-authentication10
ruby10
openssl9
activerecord9
generator8
html6
css6
windows6
font-size6
jruby6
opera6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
devise-two-factor/devise-two-factor
Mar 2022 - Jul 2022
Barebones two-factor authentication with Devise
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Eoin primarily focused on updating the Devise Two Factor authentication gem. Their contributions include refining the OTP secret handling by implementing a Rails encrypted attribute and also maintaining backward compatibility for older versions using the `attr_encrypted` gem. They updated generator to create Rails 7+ compatible code. The user made changes across multiple files, including core model files and generator files, demonstrating significant involvement in refactoring and enhancing the gem's core functionality.
authenticationfactortwo-factorfactor-authenticationbarebones
GritLearning/grit
Jul 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:115 commits in 10 months
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