Kelly Sommers
Strategic Account Executive
Palm Springs, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKelly Sommers is a Strategic Account Executive with 14 years of experience and over 20 years of commercial success driving revenue for hardware, software, SaaS, and professional services across mid-market and enterprise accounts. Known for consultative selling to C-level stakeholders, she has a proven track record of operational excellence—becoming the first AE at iT1 Source to generate $1M in gross profit in a year and earning three President’s Club honors. Based in Palm Springs, she blends strategic planning and analytical rigor to expand market share, negotiate vendor relationships, and build long-term client loyalty that survives organizational change. Comfortable in commission-driven environments, she consistently aligns solutions to business outcomes while staying current through ongoing certifications and training. An uncommon detail: she pairs her sales leadership with hands-on technical experience contributing to an open-source C-based asynchronous HTTP server project, giving her deeper empathy for engineering-led solutions.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BA, BA at Washburn University
Github Skills (6)
c1710
asynchronous10
c1110
libuv10
parse10
async10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
haywire/haywire
Apr 2013 - Nov 2016
Haywire is an asynchronous HTTP server framework written in C that's built using the event loop based libuv platform layer that node.js is built on top of.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:320 commits, 31 PRs, 157 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kelly primarily contributed to the core functionality of an asynchronous HTTP server framework written in C. Their initial work involved adding a basic implementation to begin development. Subsequent commits saw the integration of an HTTP parser and related functionalities within the webserver. They updated build scripts and implemented several updates to the parsing and request handling to enhance the project.
libuvasyncon-tophttp-serverhttpserver
kellabyte/barrage
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:37 commits, 3 PRs, 37 pushes in 2 months
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