Kevin Kelley is a systems-focused engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading high-performance, globally distributed infrastructure from startups to hyperscale companies. He has led technical efforts on Google Spanner and data protection, co-founded and ran a decentralized CDN startup, and now works on cutting-edge ML infrastructure at Anthropic. Comfortable across Rust, C++, Java/Kotlin and frontend JS, he blends deep performance engineering and distributed-systems expertise with product-minded execution. An MIT-trained developer who has tackled FDA-class medical device tooling and low-latency video at Twitch, he brings rare end-to-end experience from protocol design to production operations. Notably, his career mixes hands-on systems implementation with founding and technical leadership roles, making him equally at home shipping critical core systems or shaping engineering strategy.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Computer Science, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Contributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 9 months
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Kevin Kelley - Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic