Kyle Kelly
Member Of Technical Staff at CramHacks
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Kelley is a Principal Engineer and long-time core developer of IPython/Jupyter with 13 years of experience building collaborative data and notebook platforms at companies like Netflix, Noteable, and Anaconda. He blends applied AI and systems engineering to deliver secure, scalable interactive compute environments—from early ephemeral notebook services to production-ready realtime and multiplayer notebook protocols. A prolific open-source maintainer and project leader (initiator of tmpnb leading to Binder), his contributions span frontend UX, backend security (WebSocket origin checks, CSP), and tooling used widely across data science communities. Kyle’s work includes notable contributions to high-profile projects like Tornado, nbviewer, and cloudpickle, and he helped launch integrations such as GitHub OAuth for JupyterHub. He’s driven developer experience and adoption through documentation, testing, and CI improvements, and even built features to render non-text buffers in high-performance editors. Based in California, he combines security-first thinking with a passion for durable open source that scales from small teams to enterprise deployments.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS Information Systems, Bachelor of Science - BS Information Systems at Stony Brook University
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Github Skills (128)
atom-editor10
notebook10
restructuredtext10
github10
python10
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ipython10
websocket10
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Github contributions (5)
nteract/archived-desktop-app
Jun 2015 - Dec 2021
📘 The interactive computing suite for you! ✨
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:45 releases, 18 reviews, 4366 commits in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to the user interface and the presentation layer of the nteract project. Their commits focus on modifying and enhancing the display of information, specifically addressing themes, styles, and components related to the notebook's interface. The contributions involved integrating the mathjax package for rendering mathematical formulas, updating existing components to leverage styled-components, and improving the visual presentation of various elements.
nteractdesktop-applicationmonoreporeactpython
ipython/ipython-in-depth
Sep 2014 - Dec 2018
IPython and Jupyter in-depth Tutorial, first presented at PyCon 2012
Role in this project:Technical Writer & Notebook Maintainer
Technical Writer & Notebook MaintainerContributions:12 commits, 9 PRs, 4 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily focused on updating and migrating IPython and Jupyter notebooks within the repository. This included upgrading notebooks to nbformat 4 and restructuring documentation into a notebook format. They also addressed a typo and made updates for PyCon 2015. Their contributions enhanced the accessibility and organization of the tutorial content.
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