Ian Kelly
Senior Backend Software Engineer at Nokia
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolIan Kelly is a Senior Backend Software Engineer and engineering leader with 13 years of professional experience and two decades of agile practice, who currently architects and builds resilient backend systems at Nokia from Ann Arbor. He has scaled and led teams from small squads to 25-person organizations across domains including connected vehicles, internet attack surface management, accessibility tooling, petrochemical instrumentation and life sciences. Hands-on across languages and platforms, Ian regularly ships services in Go, TypeScript/Node.js, Scala and C#, and operates production systems on Docker, Kubernetes, AWS and GCP. He combines product-minded technical leadership—former Director/VP roles at BitBrew and Deque—with deep expertise in accessibility, contributing to the widely used axe-core project to harden automated web UI testing. Ian’s background in lab instrumentation and embedded systems gives him an unusual fluency for turning constrained, hardware-adjacent requirements into cloud-native, scalable software. He pairs strong delivery focus with a track record of introducing Scrum, CI practices and pragmatic architecture to teams and startups.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, BSc at The University of ManchesterMSc, MSc at University of York
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
accessibility10
javascript10
testing10
image9
ios9
npm9
unit-testing9
angularjs-directive9
validation9
winforms9
angularjs9
ax9
nodejs9
xcode9
html8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dequelabs/axe-core
Sep 2015 - Dec 2016
Accessibility engine for automated Web UI testing
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Accessibility Specialist
Front-end Developer & Accessibility SpecialistContributions:34 commits, 5 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to improving the accessibility of the `axe-core` project, an accessibility testing engine. Their commits focus on implementing and refining accessibility checks and related tests. These changes include updates to the core accessibility testing logic, specific tests for images and input elements, and bug fixes concerning color contrast.
web-uitestingopenui5a11ycdp
iandotkelly/gulp-license-finder
Mar 2014 - May 2017
Contributions:34 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 3 years 1 month
licensesdependenciesgulp-pluginjs-projectsgulp
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