Rachel Kelly
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Fastly
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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SeniorRachel Kelly is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Portland, Oregon with 12 years of experience shaping resilient, production-grade infrastructure. Currently at Fastly, she moved from datacenter provisioning into SRE work, bringing deep Linux, networking, and architectural judgment to global edge operations. Her background spans DevOps, Terraform/Ansible automation, AWS, and large-scale service migrations, where she balances legacy support with incremental modernization. Rachel is an active community organizer—formerly co-chair of SeaGL and chair of PyDX—bringing an operator’s pragmatism to open source and conference stewardship. She’s known for making complex systems dependable under pressure and for a dry sense of humor that surfaces in a memorable “I bend the servers to MY will” note. Colleagues rely on her for clear, practical decisions that keep critical services humming.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (62)
python10
linux10
chat10
static-site10
ansible10
gnu10
ssh10
converting9
apache9
console9
react-native9
web-application9
bug-tracker9
electron9
javascript9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rachelkelly/seagl.github.io
Jul 2019 - Nov 2021
Website for the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference
Contributions:4 PRs, 64 pushes, 36 branches in 2 years 3 months
gnu-linuxlinuxgnu
rachelkelly/emusaver
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 4 PRs, 18 pushes in 5 months
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