James Kelly
VP Market Intelligence And Innovation
Tampa, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Kelly is a seasoned technology and product leader who blends over two decades of engineering, product management, and go-to-market experience to drive market intelligence and innovation at the Open Compute Project Foundation. Previously a Senior Director at Juniper Networks, he built and scaled AI data-center initiatives—including a $5M, 96-GPU AI lab—launched cloud-native networking products, and led cross-functional teams that tripled customers for key acquisitions like Apstra. Comfortable toggling between hands-on engineering, alliances and M&A, and storytelling, he has a track record of turning research-grade ideas into commercial wins across networking, automation, and AI ops. An early adopter and open-source-minded technologist with roots in network security research and even running a hedge-fund, he combines analytical rigor with a designer’s eye and a habit of teaching and demoing complex systems. Based in Tampa, he pairs executive-level strategy training from Tuck and Berkeley with practical, boots-on-the-ground product craft.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Business Excellence, Executive Education, Certificate of Business Excellence, Executive Education at University of California, BerkeleyYoga Teacher Training, Gentle Yoga, Yin Yoga, Hatha, Vinyasa, Yoga Teacher Training, Gentle Yoga, Yin Yoga, Hatha, Vinyasa at YogaSource Los Gatos3-day Presentation Delivery and Q&A training, 3-day Presentation Delivery and Q&A training at Power Presentations Ltd.Train the Trainer 5-day course, Train the Trainer 5-day course at Train the Trainer @ Peak PotentialsOther training courses in sales, negotiations, time management, leadership, finance, philosophy and meditation, Other training courses in sales, negotiations, time management, leadership, finance, philosophy and meditation at VariousLeadership and Strategy Impact, Leadership and Strategy Impact at Tuck Executive Education at DartmouthAlgonquin CollegeCisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) at Cisco SystemsAJNR, CJNR, OTJNR, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, AJNR, CJNR, OTJNR, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Juniper NetworksCompTIA Security+ Certificate, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, CompTIA Security+ Certificate, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at CompTIAArgyle SecondaryVisual Storytelling 2-day course, Presentations, Visual Storytelling 2-day course, Presentations at Duarte AcademyMCS, Computer Science and Business, MCS, Computer Science and Business at Carleton University
French, English
Github Skills (24)
svg10
serverless10
cloud-native9
provisioning8
prebuild6
networking6
network5
browser5
mod-manager5
ord5
usrp4
kubernetes4
docker4
ansible4
gitops3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jameskellynet/resume
Feb 2016 - Dec 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 11 months
james
jameskellynet/container-networking-ansible
Feb 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:36 commits, 1 PR, 31 pushes in 7 months
provisioningcontainer-networkingansiblenetworkingdocker
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