Shannon Kelley
Senior Operations Research Software Engineer
Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolShannon Kelley is a Senior Operations Research Software Engineer with a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and a decade of experience turning advanced optimization research into production-grade systems across supply chain, transportation, and defense. She specializes in making MILP/MINLP and decomposition methods work in near real-time by bridging algorithm design (custom cutting planes, column generation matheuristics) with engineering stacks like Python, C++, Flask, Docker, and AWS. Her work has delivered measurable commercial impact—from $10M+ annual trucking savings and $28M in captured revenue to a platform acquisition and multi-million-dollar operational improvements for Fortune 500 clients. Shannon has a track record of integrating solver-level innovations (custom cuts for CBC/Gurobi) with cloud and HPC deployments to reduce solve times by as much as 69% and accelerate experimentation 100x. Comfortable leading client-facing product roadmaps and mentoring engineers, she thrives where optimization must be usable, auditable, and scalable. Based in Flagstaff, she enjoys turning theoretical advances into dependable services that make optimization the product.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Pure Mathematics, Master of Science - MS Pure Mathematics at DePaul UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Industrial Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Industrial Engineering at Lehigh UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Industrial Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Industrial Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (28)
version-control6
gurobi6
mdf6
linear-programming6
mathematical-optimization6
integer6
github6
python6
git6
integer-programming6
pandas6
solver5
vehicle-routing-problem4
windows4
django4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
spkelle2/simple_mip_solver
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
A lightweight Mixed-Integer Programming solver for prototyping new branching and cutting schemes
Contributions:15 releases, 32 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 year 9 months
cuttingintegerprototypinginteger-programmingsolver
spkelle2/lp_cutter
Sep 2020 - Apr 2021
Iteratively adds constraints to LP during solve to boost performance
Contributions:12 releases, 34 PRs, 160 pushes in 6 months
solveperformanceboost
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