Kelsey Schlarman
Engineering Manager at ClickHouse
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKelsey Schlarman is an engineering manager with 13 years of experience building and leading teams focused on scalable backend systems and observability. Currently at ClickHouse after senior and principal engineering roles at Netlify, she has a track record of rising through technical leadership positions and shipping production-grade infrastructure. Her hands-on background spans distributed systems, DevOps, and backend engineering, including contributions to the widely used Netlify-related open-source gotrue project where she improved dependency management and added tracing for better observability. Based in Boulder, Colorado, she combines people management with deep technical ownership—able to dive into Go modules, database migrations, and tracing integrations when needed. Collected experience from startups to large organizations like Microsoft gives her a pragmatic lens for balancing velocity, reliability, and developer productivity.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Computer Science, Bachelors of Science Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (10)
go10
opentracing10
database-migration9
database-migrations9
user-authentication8
authentication8
jwt8
devops8
go-modules7
jamstack6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
netlify/gotrue
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
An SWT based API for managing users and issuing SWT tokens.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 9 commits, 6 PRs in 14 days
Contributions summary:Kelsey primarily focused on improving the project's infrastructure and dependencies. They updated Go module dependencies, integrated and tested OpenTracing for enhanced monitoring, and adapted the project to use the new version of a database library. Furthermore, the user configured tracing functionality, demonstrating an understanding of distributed systems observability. They also addressed Pop migration to v5.
apitokensswtauthenticationjamstack
kschlarman/dotfiles
Feb 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 4 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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