Kelly Lyon
Founder Sticker Line (Creative Product Test)
Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKelly Lyon is a product-minded software engineer and builder with 9 years of experience turning ideas into user-centered products across tech, education, and nonprofit sectors. She blends full-stack development (React, Go, HTML/CSS, Java) and open-source contributions—having improved backend telemetry features in the Snap framework—with strong product ownership and Agile delivery experience at Intel. Kelly has a track record of scaling programs and experiences that reach hundreds of learners and donors, from launching a district-wide STEM initiative and virtual fundraisers that raised $40K+ to improving developer onboarding with 40+ technical assets. She pairs strategic roadmap thinking with hands-on execution, whether drafting camper-van build plans, prototyping features, or iterating a sticker line that achieved a 10x ROI in Vietnam. Comfortable aligning distributed stakeholders and shipping practical solutions, she emphasizes clarity, beginner-first documentation, and measurable impact. Based in Anchorage, Alaska, Kelly thrives in mission-driven environments where curiosity, creativity, and tangible outcomes matter.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics, minors: Computer Science, French, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics, minors: Computer Science, French at Western Washington UniversityAssociate of Arts (AA), General (focus: Mathematics), Associate of Arts (AA), General (focus: Mathematics) at Centralia College
French, programming: java, programming: ada, programming: robotc
Github Skills (12)
api-rest10
rest-api10
go10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
rpc8
json8
docker4
dockers4
kubernetes3
kubernetes-pods3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
intelsdi-x/snap
Sep 2016 - Jun 2018
The open telemetry framework
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 41 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Kelly contributed primarily to the backend functionality of the Snap telemetry framework. Their work involved adding options, environment variable support, and improving the logging level within the REST API. They also developed and validated V1 and V2 REST API routes for metrics, tasks, and tribe agreements. This included modifying existing code to improve the readability of tests and separate out Go RPC code.
telemetryopen-telemetry
kjlyon/snap
Aug 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 93 pushes, 37 branches in 1 year
telemetryopen-telemetry
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