Don Kelly
Senior Staff Engineer at Strangeware
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDon Kelly is a Production Engineering Manager in Ottawa with 16+ years of experience building high-performance, distributed systems and mentoring engineering teams. He blends deep systems-level craftsmanship—hand-coding servers in C and architecting SMACK-based distributed processing—with a long-standing passion for developer growth and elegant, maintainable design. Don has led architecture and delivery at organizations ranging from Shopify to a free-software civic rules engine (Xalgorithms Foundation) and runs a consulting practice that frames technical problems as coherent stories. He is equally at home reviving legacy codebases and prototyping with modern mobile and microservice stacks, and he treats software as both engineering and art. A mathematician by training, he brings a disciplined, inspectable approach to quality that emphasizes longevity over clever short-term fixes.
17 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Math, BSc Math at St. Francis Xavier University
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Github Skills (33)
jupyterhub9
ipython9
multi-user9
ubl9
jupyter-notebook9
documentation8
python8
parsing8
jekyll8
abstract-syntax-tree7
relationship7
rule7
gtfs6
json-data6
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Xalgorithms/lib-ubl-ruby
Nov 2016 - Mar 2018
UBL document parsing for Lichen (Ruby version)
Contributions:47 commits, 7 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 4 months
parsingrubylibsubl
Xalgorithms/interlibr-v1
Oct 2017 - Jun 2020
Core IoR Compute Platform. This was the Interlibr we worked on until 2020 Spring. We took a new direction after that point. This repository is preserved as a resource that allows us to reference things as they were then.
Contributions:36 PRs, 101 pushes, 38 branches in 2 years 8 months
untilpointspringcomputedirection
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