Michael Kelley
VP Of Engineering at Ascent
Salem, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Kelley is a results-driven VP of Engineering with 14–15 years of hands-on experience building SaaS platforms, modernizing cloud infrastructure, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver measurable operational improvements. He’s driven multi-fold performance and reliability gains—architecting microservices and Kubernetes-based systems that boosted scalability and raised availability to 99.9%—while cutting costs through rightsizing and observability-driven decisions. His background spans founding CTO work to enterprise leadership, shipping OCR pipelines, APIs, and developer tooling that accelerated delivery and reduced incidents by over 90%. A pragmatic mentor and process improver, he’s known for shortening onboarding from months to a week and improving team efficiency and satisfaction through automation and best practices. Based in Salem, Oregon, he blends deep technical execution with client-facing product sensitivity, consistently turning complex requirements into reliable, cost-effective systems.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Pasadena High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (127)
bitbake10
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ruby10
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ruby-on-rails10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
weaveup/code-challenges
Sep 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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