Ryan Kelly
Staff Software Engineer at Atticus
Inverloch, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Kelly is a Staff Software Engineer with 21 years of experience building reliable, cross-platform systems from backend services to mobile clients, currently based in Inverloch, Victoria. He has deep expertise in identity, sync and telemetry—having driven Firefox Accounts, sync servers and a shared Rust-based client SDK across Mozilla’s desktop and mobile products. Ryan combines hands-on coding (Node, Python, Rust, Android/iOS) with technical leadership, previously managing and then returning to IC work to focus on client-side architecture and dev tooling. His open-source footprint includes substantive contributions to high-profile projects like Mozilla’s fxa, application-services and emscripten, where he improved authentication, build processes and WebAssembly output. He also brings a research-grounded perspective with a PhD in Computer Science and a history of shipping practical tooling such as a static site generator and encrypted cloud storage.
21 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Github Skills (73)
mobile-development10
python10
synchronized10
authentication10
rust-wasm10
javas10
type-system10
code-generation10
ffi10
build-automation10
synchronize10
javascript10
hapi10
dockers10
pyramid10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla-services/syncserver
Feb 2014 - Sep 2020
Run-Your-Own Firefox Sync Server
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 166 commits, 72 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ryan contributed to the development and deployment of the Firefox Sync Server. They implemented a static node assignment backend, enhancing the server's deployment process. Additionally, they modified the application's configuration to use a persistent SQLite database by default. Further contributions involved setting up the CI/CD pipeline, configuring the deployment, and integrating the server with a Docker-based deployment workflow.
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pypyjs/pypyjs
Dec 2013 - Mar 2019
PyPy compiled to JavaScript
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 250 commits, 42 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the development of the PyPy.js environment by implementing core features and addressing bugs. Their work involved improvements to the module-bundling tools and the in-browser REPL functionality. They also refactored the code to better align with the project’s codebase, and incorporated a new compression scheme for the memory initializer.
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