Operations Engineer at SugarCRM
Greater Atlanta Area
- Current
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- Operations Engineer at SugarCRM
- Project Manager at Gallery
- Past
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- Graduate Research Assistant at Georgia Tech
- Platforms Engineering Intern at Google
- Security Engineer at The Fulcrum Group
- Education
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- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Connections
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- Industry
- Computer Networking
- Websites
Chris Kelly’s Summary
If it's computer networking or web application related, and doesn't involve a soldering iron, chances are I have at least some experience with it. Just to name a few: running cable and racking servers, writing Linux kernel code that encrypts network traffic, building content management systems in PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript, configuring load balancers and firewalls, managing teams of software developers, implementing/optimizing/securing complex LAMP stack deployments, and collecting and analyzing network and system performance information.
I seek to keep myself busy learning more and doing neat things in that domain, while having enough time to take lots of pictures, spend some time on my bicycles, and maybe win a race every now and then.
Chris Kelly’s Specialties:
LAMP, web application architectures, system and network security, performance analysis, enterprise networking, high availability, software engineering, public policy
Chris Kelly’s Experience
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Operations Engineer
SugarCRM
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2008 — Present (10 months)
Enterprise cluster ninja. I use heavy duty commercial hardware and software, Open Source software, monitoring tools, scripting languages, and problem solving skills to keep our web properties and our ondemand environment running and growing both effectively and securely.
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Project Manager
Gallery
(Computer Software industry)
February 2004 — Present (4 years 9 months)
Project Manager and Developer for the open source Gallery project.Responsible for coordinating a team of developers around the world to develop the project and put out new feature releases and security updates; managing patches, bug fixes, and feature requests; and writing some code. XML-RPC module Developer, Google Summer Of Code mentor, and OpenUsability Season of Usability mentor.
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Graduate Research Assistant
Georgia Tech
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2006 — December 2007 (2 years)
Graduate Research Assistant for the team in OIT-ART working on CPR: the Campus-Wide Network Performance Monitoring and Recovery system. Responsible for: managing and writing management software for the distributed network of nodes, writing code to compute statistics and detect anomalies in performance data, facilitate interaction with other groups to allow them to use the network including packing software and distributing it to the machines.
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Platforms Engineering Intern
Google
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Computer Networking industry)
June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)
Software Engineering intern working on Networking in the Platforms Team at Google. ("The Platforms Team builds Google's computing platform: the datacenters, servers, networking and system software that powers all of Google's services. Networking Engineers work on projects involving next generation networking systems and architecture, distributed systems, and routing.") I did a lot of neat things in Python with threading, SWIG, and unit tests. My primary project was a simulation tool designed to help with training and the development of monitoring software.
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Security Engineer
The Fulcrum Group
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)
September 2004 — February 2006 (1 year 6 months)
Responsible for implementing and maintaining scalable network solutions utilizing Windows Server technology as well as Linux and specalized networking hardware such as SonicWall firewalls. Implemented a high-availability tool for BIND in perl, Active Directory based authentication in Linux, pam password complexity checking module in C for AIX/Solaris/Linux, and a customized e-mail spam filtering and virus scanning appliance utilizing perl and an assortment of pieces of open source software.
Chris Kelly’s Education
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Georgia Institute of Technology
Masters, Computer Science, 2006 — 2007
- Activities and Societies:
- Network Technologies Student Reading Group, Networking and Telecommunications Group, Network Operations and Internet Security Lab
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Georgia Institute of Technology
BS, Computer Science, 2002 — 2005
- Activities and Societies:
- Symphonic Orchestra, Peer Leader
Additional Information
Chris Kelly’s Websites:
Chris Kelly’s Interests:
biking, music, photography, technology, problem solving
Chris Kelly’s Groups:
IEEE, Mensa, NESA
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Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing
Chris Kelly’s Honors:
Student Scholarship to Apple's World Wide Developer Conference 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Georgia Tech Dean's List: Fall 2001, Summer 2002, Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005
NSA Information Assurance Certificate 2005
Eagle Scout
Chris Kelly’s Contact Settings
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