Michael Kelly
Principal Solutions Architect at Versent
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Kelly is a Principal Solutions Architect based in Sydney with over a decade of experience architecting cloud-native and DevOps transformations, primarily at Versent. He combines hands-on engineering (Python, AWS, CI/CD, automation) with leadership across platform, delivery and migration projects for financial and telecommunications clients. His background spans early C/C++ systems work, scalable web products and embedded recommendation engines, giving him a rare mix of systems-level rigor and product-focused delivery. At Versent he progressed from DevOps engineer to Principal Engineer and now Principal Solutions Architect, driving automated pipelines and modern infrastructure patterns. He holds advanced academic credentials in computer science and a postgraduate commercialisation certificate, reflecting both research depth and an ability to translate ideas into commercial outcomes. Colleagues note his knack for bridging legacy supplier relationships with fully automated cloud operations to deliver measurable, low-risk transformations.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Western Sydney UniversityCertificate in Research Commercialisation Postgraduate Commercialisation, Certificate in Research Commercialisation Postgraduate Commercialisation at University of Technology Sydney
English, Spanish
Github Skills (48)
filter10
tencent-cloud10
lambda10
ping10
identity9
dsl9
pingfederate9
cloud-computing9
gcp9
cost-optimization9
policies9
responsive9
yaml9
aws9
sdk9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
galactose/wviews
Jan 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 50 pushes in 3 years 4 months
nlpanswerartificialprogramsepistemic-logic
Py-Ping/py-ping-access-sdk
Sep 2020 - Jun 2022
Python based PingAccess SDK generator. Specify a version of the Ping Access product and the generator will provision a docker container of that version and generate a Python SDK based on the provided Swagger document
Contributions:6 reviews, 47 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 9 months
pythonpingaccessdockerprovisionsdk
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