William Kelly
Staff Engineer at Common Tools
Brighton, Colorado, United States
Summary
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SeniorWilliam Kelly is a Staff Engineer with 15 years of experience designing and operating highly scalable web and cloud infrastructures, currently based in Brighton, Colorado. His career spans hands-on roles at Rackspace, Planet Labs, and Salesforce where he focused on OpenStack, cloud architecture, and the tooling that makes large-scale object storage and satellite-imagery pipelines reliable. He combines deep Linux and virtualization expertise with a pragmatic approach to horizontal scalability, performance tuning, and observability. William has shifted between provider and enterprise perspectives, giving him a unique ability to translate customer needs into resilient cloud platforms and deployment automation. He is comfortable both writing operational tooling and contributing to open design discussions for open-source cloud projects. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture guidance that balances cutting-edge cloud patterns with production-hardened operational practices.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (51)
recipe10
cookbook9
bootstrapping9
azerothcore9
lwrp9
vtt9
csharp8
character-sheet7
python7
openstack-cinder5
virtualization5
devstack5
glance5
minesweeper4
pong4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rcbops/djeep
Jun 2011 - Sep 2013
simple pxe bootstrapping
Contributions:75 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 4 months
pythonbootstrappingpxe
rcbops-cookbooks/dsh
Apr 2012 - Dec 2013
dsh cookbook and lwrp
Contributions:44 commits in 1 year 7 months
lwrp
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