Robert Kelly
VP Innovation
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
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Top SchoolRobert Kelly is a VP of Innovation with over a decade of hands-on software and delivery experience, focused on bringing AI-native practices, platform engineering, and product thinking into large, regulated enterprises. He blends deep DevOps and developer-experience expertise with a practical view that innovation emerges from high-performing teams, strong feedback loops, and friction-reducing platforms — not just shiny tech. At Liatrio he has progressed from DevOps consultant to VP, helping banks, healthcare organizations, and airlines modernize how they build and ship software at scale. Robert is pragmatic about responsible AI adoption, ensuring teams can leverage models and automation without sacrificing governance or reliability. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, he pairs a systems-development background with a constant learning mindset, often translating operational improvements into measurable delivery acceleration. An underappreciated strength is his ability to bridge detailed engineering practices with enterprise change management, making transformation achievable rather than theoretical.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems Software Development, Information Systems Software Development at The University of Texas at Arlington
Github Skills (99)
infrastructure10
microservices10
summarize10
pipeline10
continuous-delivery9
hygieia9
helm9
delivery-pipeline9
dx9
docker9
devops9
artifact9
continuous-deployment9
cicd9
cd9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
rode/demo-app
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
Repository for the app used in the Rode Demo
Contributions:14 reviews, 28 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 7 months
flutterrodeandroid
liatrio/terraform-change-pr-commenter
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
GitHub Action to read changes from Terraform plan JSON, summarize changes, and post them in a GitHub Pull Request Comment
Contributions:3 releases, 11 reviews, 29 commits in 1 year
planpull-requestsummarizerequestterraform
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