Demitrious Kelly
Code Hound at Automattic
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarDemitrious Kelly is an experienced software engineer and operations specialist with 12 years in the field, currently operating as a "Code Hound" at Automattic out of Fremont, California. His background spans network operations and systems roles, including leadership as Director of Network Operations at Feedster and hands-on engineering at Ookles, giving him deep operational and deployment expertise. He contributes to open-source DevOps tooling—improving secure FTP deployment workflows in a popular GitHub Actions project by hardening SSH known_hosts handling. Comfortable across infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and security-conscious automation, he focuses on making releases reliable and repeatable. Known for prizing practical, production-ready solutions, he blends systems-level thinking with pragmatic engineering to keep services running smoothly.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
continuous-deployment10
github-ci10
continuous-integration10
cicd10
automation10
automations10
githubaction-workflow10
act10
deployment-automation10
scripting9
shell9
script9
sh9
ftp8
html6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SamKirkland/FTP-Deploy-Action
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Deploys a GitHub project to a FTP server using GitHub actions
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Demitrious focused on improving the deployment process of the GitHub project to an FTP server. Their commits primarily involve configuring the execution environment for the GitHub Actions workflow. This includes setting up and configuring secure shell access for the deployment. The user added functionality to configure the known_hosts file to allow for secure connections.
ftp-serverdeployment-automationdeploy-actioncontinuous-deploymentcontinuous-integration
apokalyptik/ts
Apr 2016 - Apr 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
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