Kel Cecil
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolKel Cecil is a pragmatic technology leader and founder with 15 years of hands-on engineering and executive experience, now serving as CTO of BidLightning and founder of Readyfuels, a Morgantown-based venture studio that turns founder ideas into paying MVPs. He specializes in fast, reliable product delivery using Elixir, Phoenix, and the Ash Framework, and balances consultancy work with building domain-specific products—from FDA-ready food production tooling to LIMS and real estate title-opinion software. Having led engineering at InspectionGo and shipped platform work at realtor.com and enterprise firms, he knows both startup speed and the real costs of scale. An active back-end contributor to community projects like OpenFarm, he blends practical open-source experience with an educator’s instinct (adjunct professor) and a knack for guiding teams through messy early-stage tradeoffs. He’s deeply invested in growing West Virginia’s tech ecosystem through board work and local ventures, which informs his founder-centric, long-term approach to product partnerships.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at West Virginia UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at West Virginia University Institute of TechnologyCertificate, Computer Maintenance Technology (Engineering), Certificate, Computer Maintenance Technology (Engineering) at Mercer County Technical Education Center
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
rest-api9
open-source8
refile6
ruby-on-rails6
docker-volume6
go6
amazon-s36
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
openfarmcc/OpenFarm
Dec 2013 - Dec 2013
A free and open database for farming and gardening knowledge. You can grow anything!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:Kel primarily contributed to implementing the user model and associated features within the OpenFarm project. Their work includes defining the user model with attributes such as email, display name, and password, along with validation rules. They also added functionality to create, edit, and view user profiles, and integrated internationalization (i18n) for the user form and other display elements. Further, they implemented a controller for the crop model, along with view implementations.
gardeningknowledgerailsplantsdatabase
kelcecil/kelcecil.github.io
Sep 2015 - Nov 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 6 branches in 6 years 2 months
jekyll
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