Ryan Kelly
Director Of Engineering at PayPal
Hudson, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Kelly is a seasoned engineering leader with over two decades of experience and 14 years in senior tech roles, currently directing engineering for PayPal's Agentic Toolkit, MCP Server, SDKs, and developer tools. He blends hands-on architecture and security roots with people leadership, enabling full-stack teams to translate customer and business needs into a clear technical vision and delivery. His career spans startups and large enterprises—rising from security engineer to CTO at Bandwango and now Director of Engineering—bringing deep operational experience across mobile, machine learning, and platform services. Based in Hudson, Illinois, he is known for balancing pragmatic product focus with technical rigor and for prioritizing developer experience as a force multiplier across organizations.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Eureka College
Github Skills (122)
buttons10
paypal10
checkout10
javascript10
sdk10
payment10
obsolete10
angular10
square10
popup10
iframe10
paypal-buttons10
react10
expressjs9
server9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ponycode/pony-uploader
Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
Example project showing how to do direct to S3 file uploads from the client.
Contributions:4 commits, 6 PRs, 56 pushes in 5 months
to-doimage-hostingdirectaws-s3aws
remotevision/resume
Aug 2021 - Jul 2022
A minimal Jekyll Theme to host your resume (CV)
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
hostjekyll-theme-minimaljekylljekyll-themecv-resume
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