Nick Kelly
Senior Software Engineer at Activated Insights
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Kelly is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building data-driven, cloud-native systems and integrations. As a founding engineer at Activated Insights he led a lake house initiative and built a scalable ETL framework on AWS Glue, and has repeatedly replaced legacy tooling with Python/Django platforms that cut onboarding and deployment times dramatically. Previously at Carta he delivered a Python gRPC payments service that reduced failures and sped up transactions for a majority of customers, demonstrating a focus on reliability and measurable business impact. He combines hands-on backend engineering, API integrations, and CI/CD expertise across AWS and GCP with practical systems experience from embedded controls to SaaS products. Known for turning coffee into code, he pairs pragmatic architecture choices with fast delivery and an eye for automating repetitive work.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at San Diego State University
Spanish, Polish
Github Skills (200)
testing10
serverless10
api10
api-rest10
changelog10
python10
spam10
continuous-integration10
alembic10
publish10
aws-cloud10
asyncpg10
avatar10
lambda10
developer-tools10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nickatnight/django-spam
May 2018 - Aug 2022
:hamburger: Django application that redirects spam bots to '10 hours of' videos
Contributions:28 PRs, 90 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 4 months
pythondjangohamburgerspamvideos
nickatnight/fastapi-backend-base
May 2021 - Feb 2023
:globe_with_meridians: A base project I use for building fastapi backends
Contributions:32 commits, 32 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 8 months
globeapipythonasynciobackends
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