James Kelly
Co-Founder at Location Solve
New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Kelly is a seasoned software engineer and co-founder with 16 years of experience designing and delivering scalable, cloud-hosted systems from NSW, Australia. He combines hands-on C# development, DDD and TDD discipline with practical DevOps leadership—introducing CI/CD, centralized logging and AWS migrations for GIS-focused enterprises. At Forestry Corporation NSW he built resilient APIs and web apps used by 600+ remote iOS clients and led a team to cost and scope a full GIS cloud transition. As a consultant and technical adviser he guides architecture from VMs to containers and managed databases, prioritising operational resilience and measurable business outcomes. He brings a geomatics background to spatial systems engineering, translating field surveying requirements into robust digital workflows. Colleagues know him for balancing autonomous delivery with stakeholder-facing project leadership and a persistent drive to automate and improve operational processes.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Geomatics, Bachelor's degree Geomatics at University of Tasmania
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (74)
nuget10
messaging10
rabbitmq10
msmq10
rebus10
geocoding10
simpleinjector10
servicebus10
dotnet9
azure-service-bus9
message-queue9
geodata9
persistence9
lua9
microservices9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jmkelly/dotfiles
Apr 2023 - May 2026
Contributions:91 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 1 month
jmkelly/Rebus.PostgreSql
Oct 2016 - Apr 2023
:bus: PostgreSQL persistence for Rebus
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 7 months
rebusbusdatabasepostgrespostgresql
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