Neil Schelly
Board Member at iRacing.com
New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolNeil Schelly is a seasoned operations-focused software engineer with 13+ years building reliable, scalable infrastructure across networking, PKI, cloud, and Kubernetes for companies like Dyn, Oracle, and iRacing. He excels at designing systems that favor operability—automation, monitoring, security, and clear documentation—so teams can run services reliably months after deployment. His background spans global anycast networks and CDN/origin architectures, PKI engineering (including work on Lemur certificate manager), and pragmatic cloud deployments on OCI. Neil is an active backend contributor to open-source monitoring tooling—improving Prometheus exporters for Oracle databases—and prefers minimizing “clever” complexity in favor of durable, auditable solutions. Now a board member of a 501(c)(3) and seeking to shift more toward software development and cloud architecture, he pairs decades of operational practice with a drive to coach healthier, flexible workplace practices. Based in New Hampshire, he brings a hands-on, operator-centric lens to platform engineering and security automation.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science Computer Science, Bachelor's of Science Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
English, French
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Github Skills (20)
monitoring10
ssl10
oracles10
python10
prometheus-exporter10
security10
go10
oracle10
prometheus10
x50910
cryptography10
marshmallow9
rest-api8
aws8
toml8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
iamseth/oracledb_exporter
Jun 2020 - Jan 2021
Prometheus Oracle database exporter.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 14 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Neil focused on enhancing the functionality of the Oracle database exporter by integrating new libraries and features. Their work included switching to Kingpin for flag management, updating the Prometheus client library, and adding support for histograms. They also addressed bugs and performed minor fixes to improve the exporter's stability and performance.
exporterprometheus-exporteroracle-databaseoracledatabase
Netflix/lemur
Oct 2016 - Dec 2022
Repository for the Lemur Certificate Manager
Role in this project:Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:19 commits, 16 PRs, 37 comments in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Neil primarily contributed to the Lemur Certificate Manager by addressing various issues related to X.509 certificate extensions and the user interface. They refactored and updated the cryptography logic, implemented authority key identifiers, and streamlined certificate creation. Moreover, the user worked on fixing UI components for creating certificate authorities and certificates, including custom OIDs and key usage options. They also addressed bug fixes related to template application and certificate export.
pythonsslssl-certificatessecuritytls
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