Rory Kelly
Staff Software Engineer at EquipmentShare
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRory Kelly is a Staff Software Engineer and seasoned technology leader with 11 years’ experience building platforms, shipping mobile apps, and scaling engineering teams from early-stage startups to a $3.9B construction-technology company. He currently leads a 12-engineer platform team at EquipmentShare, architecting a migration from monolith to distributed microservices (Kafka, Flink, OpenSearch) and driving real-time data solutions used across thousands of field technicians. A repeat founder and CTO, he co-founded One21Two with Jamal Edwards, raised seed funding, and previously bootstrapped a social network to 50K MAU while running a consultancy serving Fortune 500 clients. Rory blends hands-on engineering (Python, TypeScript, React Native, mobile) with strong processes—establishing code review standards, incident response, and cross-team coordination—to reduce production issues and accelerate delivery. His background in mobile and low-latency systems, plus experience integrating ML on-device and in backend pipelines, gives him a pragmatic edge when turning complex distributed designs into production-ready services.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Games Development, Master's degree, Computer Games Development at University of Abertay Dundee
Spanish, French
Github Skills (162)
postgresql10
javascript10
dao10
database10
sqlite10
cockroachdb10
mysql10
mariadb10
prisma10
sql-server10
microsoft-sql-server10
nodejs10
mongodb10
query-builder10
orm10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
puddlealley/webpage
Jan 2020 - Apr 2024
Main webpage for puddle alley
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 3 months
webpage
Rockspin/RxFlux-Android
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
Flux framework for Kotlin/Android
Contributions:12 PRs, 66 pushes, 12 branches in 1 month
androidflux-frameworkkotlin
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