Lara Kelley
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Higharc
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLara Kelley is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of full-stack and infrastructure experience, currently focused on DevOps, security, and product development at Higharc. She moved from engineering management back to hands-on technical work while retaining a tech-lead role, blending individual contribution with cross-functional influence. Lara has led API, security, QA, and internal tooling efforts, supported major customer negotiations, and built features that materially impacted contracts and onboarding. Her background spans startups and mission-driven orgs—from building robot UIs and data visualizations to overseeing infrastructure for a 90,000-member nonprofit—showing a rare mix of product, ops, and customer-facing skills. Based in New York, she’s also a multi-instrumentalist and creative founder, bringing an interdisciplinary, user-focused perspective to engineering problems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS, 3.1, Bachelor of Science - BS, MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS, 3.1 at University of Massachusetts AmherstBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.93, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.93 at University of RochesterHigh School Diploma, 3.9, High School Diploma, 3.9 at Norwood High School
English
Github Skills (200)
e2e-testing10
sentry10
slack-bot10
python10
amazon-cognito10
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
autocomplete10
language-server-protocol10
ember10
directories10
declarative10
aws-s310
command-line-tool10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
tylucaskelley/boston-startup-scraper
Feb 2015 - Mar 2020
(DEPRECATED) Scrapes http://bostonstartupsguide.com/ for startup info
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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tylucaskelley/ur-wallet
Dec 2013 - Jun 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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