Summary
Kelly Correll is a Principal Consultant with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, building, and hardening cloud-native systems and penetration testing pipelines. She has repeatedly automated and scaled remote testing infrastructures—most recently migrating VM builds to GitLab + AWS Image Builder and creating cross-cloud export/import pipelines that cut AMI management overhead by 80%. Kelly pairs full-stack development chops (CMSes, payment integrations, high-volume order systems) with deep offensive security expertise, including reversing password managers and developing exploits used in enterprise assessments. Her work has delivered measurable business impact: rapid regional deployments for testing teams, $72K/year cloud ops savings, and production systems processing tens of millions in orders. Comfortable mentoring engineers and leading client engagements, she blends practitioner-level technical depth with operational pragmatism. Based in Prosper, Texas, she runs her own IT firm while advising large security teams, a combination that keeps her both entrepreneurial and battlefield-tested.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Colorado State University Global