Tim Kellogg
Principal AI Architect at Icertis
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolTim Kellogg is a Principal AI Architect and two-time founder with 15 years of experience building production-grade AI systems, startups, and developer tools. He pairs hands-on engineering — from backend systems and DevOps to LLM-based RAG and knowledge-graph architectures — with CEO-level product and go-to-market experience across multiple ventures and exits. An ex-AWS engineer who helped launch AWS IoT and Sumerian, he later led ML teams at Advata, rapidly shipped configurable enterprise LLM platforms at Fancy Robot, and prototyped consumer and productivity AI products like Fossil and Dentropy. Tim is an active open-source contributor (notably work on stanfordnlp/dspy and a Git-backed recovery tool, dura) and writes about AI engineering, LLM breakthroughs, and market trends on his blog. He’s known for turning ideas into working products quickly (often shipping MVPs in weeks) and for blending symbolic reasoning with vector-based models to power practical AI applications. Based in Raleigh, NC, he combines startup grit, cloud-scale experience, and a pragmatic engineering approach to AI architecture and tooling.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS + BA Computer Science + Mathematics, BS + BA Computer Science + Mathematics at Houghton University
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Github Skills (47)
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netframework10
vim10
dotnet-core10
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fsharp10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
tkellogg/dura
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
You shouldn't ever lose your work if you're using Git
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 81 reviews, 75 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Tim implemented the core functionality of the `dura` tool, focusing on automated Git commit backups. Their contributions include adding sub-commands, implementing a file change detection mechanism to optimize commits, and integrating an asynchronous poller for background operation. The user also added features such as file timestamp checks and a metrics formatter for performance analysis and logging, alongside creating a basic command-line interface for interacting with the tool.
rustevergit-gui
VsVim/VsVim
Feb 2012 - Apr 2012
Vim Emulator Plugin for Visual Studio 2015+
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the Vim emulator plugin, focusing on enhancing its functionality. They implemented features like matching newlines in search and replace, supporting preprocessor directives like `#ifdef` and `#ifndef`, and fixing caret behavior within the editor. The contributions demonstrate expertise in Vim's regex engine and editor command processing. Furthermore, the user refactored existing test code and added test cases to ensure the correctness of the implemented features.
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