Kelly Vaughn
Sr. Engineering Manager at The Modern Leader
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKelly Vaughn is a senior engineering manager and founder with 11+ years of leadership experience and a 20-year background in web and full-stack development. Currently leading Editor squads at Zapier, she has shipped user-facing workflow builders used by millions while previously scaling engineering and product at fast-growing Video AI startup Spot AI. She founded and grew a Shopify Plus agency to $1.4M ARR and helped merchants reach $10M ARR, then translated that hands-on product experience into building APIs, distributed teams, and security/compliance programs like SOC 2 and HIPAA. An educator and creator, Kelly publishes The Modern Leader and runs a management course focused on trust, communication, and empowerment, turning engineering managers into effective leaders. Her unusual blend of clinical public health training and deep technical chops gives her a practical, user-centered approach to product and people problems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of Georgia
English
Github Skills (21)
graphql10
react10
gatsby10
netlify9
static-site-generator9
fastest9
build-process9
frontend9
theme-development9
gatsbyjs9
compiler9
shopify-cli8
shopify8
command-line-tool6
cli6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kellyvaughn/kellyvaughn
Aug 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
kellyvaughn/kvlly
Jan 2019 - Mar 2021
Personal site built with Gatsby and deployed on Netlify. Really just a coding playground.
Contributions:127 commits, 53 PRs, 121 pushes in 2 years 2 months
gatsbyreactbuilt-with-gatsbygatsbyjsdeployed
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