Kelly Kelly is a senior software engineer with over 20 years of experience specializing in storage systems, performance engineering, and test automation. She has led teams and built tooling at EMC/Dell EMC—designing Java/C++ performance frameworks, MySQL-backed result stores, and automation dashboards—then continued as a senior engineer at Basis Technology. Her contributions to notable open-source digital forensics projects like The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy include back-end work on communications filtering, SQL-driven summaries, and image-processing improvements, showing strong data-model and SQL expertise. Kelly blends hands-on coding with people leadership, having served as technical lead, manager, Scrum Master and TPO across distributed teams. Based in Worcester, MA, she holds a MS in Software Engineering from Brandeis and a BS in Computer Science, bringing both academic rigor and practical systems experience. An understated strength is her knack for turning complex I/O and trace-analysis requirements into clean, maintainable tooling that accelerates team productivity.
7 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Software Engineering, Master of Software Engineering at Brandeis University
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
The Sleuth Kit® (TSK) is a library and collection of command line digital forensics tools that allow you to investigate volume and file system data. The library can be incorporated into larger digital forensics tools and the command line tools can be directly used to find evidence.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:65 reviews, 272 commits, 117 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kelly contributed primarily to the development of the Communications Manager and related filtering mechanisms. The commits involved the addition of several accessor functions for filtering by account type, device, and date ranges, as well as modifications to the SQL queries used in these filters. Furthermore, the user added functionality to support a summary panel in the communication window and a new "MostRecentFilter," demonstrating an understanding of data model design and SQL database interactions.
Autopsy® is a digital forensics platform and graphical interface to The Sleuth Kit® and other digital forensics tools. It can be used by law enforcement, military, and corporate examiners to investigate what happened on a computer. You can even use it to recover photos from your camera's memory card.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:200 reviews, 1250 commits, 482 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Kelly primarily worked on the Autopsy digital forensics platform, with contributions focused on modifying and updating the codebase. Their commits show involvement in areas such as image processing, user interface components, and code clean-up. The changes indicate a focus on improving existing functionality and addressing specific issues within the platform.
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