Kelly Blincoe
Associate Professor
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolKelly Blincoe is an Associate Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Auckland with over a decade of experience bridging industry-grade software development and empirical academic research. Her work focuses on collaborative development, human factors in software teams, and diversity and inclusion, and she contributes to the field through editorial roles at top journals and program committees for major conferences like ICSE. Kelly’s background spans hands-on engineering and management at Lockheed Martin through to a PhD and postdoctoral research, giving her a rare combination of practical systems experience and rigorous empirical methods. She is known for translating team-level social insights into actionable software engineering practices and for mentoring the next generation of researchers in socio-technical studies.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Drexel UniversityMaster of Science (MS), Computer and Information Sciences, General, Master of Science (MS), Computer and Information Sciences, General at Pennsylvania State University-Great Valley Graduate CenterBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering at Villanova University
Github Skills (19)
java7
restful7
database6
search-engine6
relational-algebra5
elasticsearch5
prolog5
perl4
javascript3
stack-based3
esoteric-language3
c-programming3
polyglot3
machine-learning2
programming-language2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kblincoe/pygoat
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
intentionally vuln web Application Security in django
Contributions:29 PRs, 31 pushes, 31 branches in 8 months
kblincoe/snyk-goof
Jul 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:35 PRs, 38 pushes, 39 branches in 6 months
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