James Kelly
Vice President - Software Engineer at Blackstone
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Kelly is a Vice President and seasoned full‑stack software engineer with 11 years of experience building performant, production-grade JS systems and data pipelines. He has led feature epics and teams at Blackstone and Better.com, architecting event-driven TypeScript microservices, ELT pipelines, and Next.js frontends while improving throughput with Kafka, SQS, Kubernetes, Postgres and DynamoDB. Comfortable bridging design and engineering, he has a history of working closely with product and design teams to deliver client-facing search and media experiences and internal tooling for complex third‑party data normalization. A diligent optimist and former musician, he brings curiosity, storytelling, and cross-disciplinary collaboration to technical leadership, often taking scrum master and hiring responsibilities to shape teams as well as code.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
N/A Web Development and Programming, N/A Web Development and Programming at Fullstack AcademyBMus - Performance Music Management, BMus - Performance Music Management at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (17)
trellis7
federated6
react5
react-component5
nextjs5
creator4
nodejs4
federation4
james3
react-components3
javascript3
antd2
static-html2
jstree2
static-site-generator1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gavlu/trellis
Nov 2014 - Jan 2015
trellis site
Contributions:94 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 month
trellis
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