Josh Kelso
Lead Software Engineer at Kainos
Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJosh Kelso is a lead software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building full-stack Python services, data pipelines, and cloud-native systems across the UK and New Zealand. With a First Honours master's in Computer Science and AWS Associate Developer certification (recertified 2023), he blends R&D curiosity—over two years delivering POCs in AI, quantum, IoT and AR/VR—with practical delivery leadership, having led apprenticeship academies and major migrations into AWS. He has shipped web and backend products using Next.js, GraphQL, Prisma, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform and testing-driven workflows, and has co-founded a digital startup that brought an entertainment-sector SaaS to MVP on AWS. A natural communicator and public speaker, Josh applies theatre-honed presentation skills to teaching AI at university level and leading cross-functional teams. Notably, he was the first at his company to achieve IBM’s Quantum certification, reflecting an uncommon blend of classical engineering discipline and cutting-edge research interest.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Queen's University BelfastHigh School, ICT (A), Music (A), Maths (B), High School, ICT (A), Music (A), Maths (B) at Ballyclare High School (Grammar)
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Github Skills (84)
sdk10
quantum-computing10
faucet10
lambda-functions9
amplify9
aws-amplify9
api9
monorepo9
authentication9
python9
qiskit9
aws-s39
quantum-programming-language9
aws9
react9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
scottkelso/botnet-defender
Dec 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:51 commits, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
scottkelso/qiskit-terra
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Terra provides the foundations for Qiskit. It allows the user to write quantum circuits easily, and takes care of the constraints of real hardware.
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
takesfoundationsquantum-computingcircuitsquantum-circuits
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