Kelly Macleod
Open Innovation Advisor
North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKelly Macleod is an Open Innovation Advisor with nine years of experience translating technical complexity into clear business outcomes and actionable user stories. Based in North Carolina, she has led cross-functional, public-sector projects at Topcoder—including a NASA comet-detection ML initiative that produced seven algorithms and helped discover two comets—and now advises NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation. A former freelance web developer and hobby coder with a freeCodeCamp full-stack certification, she blends hands-on technical empathy with disciplined project management to deliver stakeholder-aligned solutions. Kelly excels at bridging engineers and non-technical teams, anticipating risks, and creating accessible documentation that keeps diverse programs moving. Her background in psychology and military HR informs a people-first approach to process design and team coordination. She’s also an active contributor to community initiatives like Operation Code and is known for asking incisive “stupid” questions that surface hidden assumptions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology at Appalachian State UniversityFull Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCamp
Github Skills (29)
javascript10
operation10
css10
postcss10
react10
cypress9
frontend9
backend8
nextjs8
procedures8
typescript8
storybook8
nodejs7
mongodb7
slack-bot5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ksmacleod99/operationcode_frontend
Dec 2017 - Nov 2018
This is the frontend repo for the Operation Code website
Contributions:4 PRs, 39 pushes, 10 branches in 11 months
operationjavascriptreactfrontend
ksmacleod99/vigilant-adventure
Jul 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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