Kellie Lombardi
Senior Specialist, AI Business Solutions - Financial Services at Microsoft
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKellie Lombardi is a business and technology leader with eight years of experience helping financial services and high-tech clients translate research and advisory insights into actionable growth strategies. Currently a Senior Specialist in AI Business Solutions at Microsoft, she brings a background in Forrester consulting and account leadership where she guided decision-making through research-backed frameworks and hands-on engagements. Kellie’s earlier career in ecommerce and retail operations at Warby Parker and S'well cultivated a practical, customer-obsessed approach to scaling online businesses and marketplaces. She pairs that commercial sensibility with hands-on engineering contributions to major CI/CD projects—improving Jenkins and Azure Pipelines tasks—to ensure reliable build and deployment workflows. Based in the New York City area, she blends strategic advisory skills with technical fluency to bridge business needs and implementation. A detail-oriented operator, she often focuses on connectivity and security nuances (e.g., TLS requirements) that keep integrations robust in production.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
International Business, International Business at Grenoble Ecole de ManagementBachelor of Science in Business Marketing, Bachelor of Science in Business Marketing at University of Connecticut
English
Github Skills (18)
cicd10
java10
javas10
http-client10
task-automation10
azure-pipelines10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
tls129
tls139
mtls9
libtls9
maven9
curl8
junit8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/tfs-plugin
Sep 2017 - Jan 2020
Jenkins tfs plugin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 21 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kellie primarily contributed to the Jenkins TFS plugin by addressing build parameter handling. They modified code to use default parameter values when not supplied and added code to explicitly require TLS 1.1 or 1.2. Additionally, they refactored code to remove unused variables and imports, and updated unit tests to run on Windows OS. Finally, they corrected the formed URL to point back to TFS/VSTS, demonstrating a focus on the plugin's core functionality and connectivity.
jenkinstfsjenkins-pluginjenkins-api-plugingocd
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks
Sep 2017 - Jan 2019
Tasks for Azure Pipelines
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:92 commits, 75 PRs, 85 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Kellie primarily contributed to improving the Azure Pipelines tasks, focusing on build and deployment aspects. They introduced a JavaToolInstaller task for installing Java versions and updated various tasks such as JenkinsQueueJob and cURLUploader, to enhance functionality. Their work included correcting file path normalization, updating URLs, and fixing issues related to Jenkins job links and console error handling, all while updating task versions. They also updated maven task to use new locator server calls.
azure-pipelineswindowsazurepipelinesazure-devops
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