Kelly Dunn

General

I am a Professional Software Engineer with a decade of experience in various industries, including Education, Gaming, Music, IOT, Marketing, and Finance. I am Technical Leader focusing on Distributed Systems, Site Reliability, and Scalablity.

Professional Experience

Splice

Sr. Software Engineer // Technical Lead - Search + SRE October 2018 - Present
  • Improved p99 Search Latencies 100x to sub 100ms responses. Lead and oversaw an initiative to migrate legacy search infrastructure to a more modern and managed alterantive. Productionalized an experimental ML feature in ElasticSearch.
  • Built a CI/CD Pipeline with AWS Codebuild that was 30x cheaper and was 12x faster than a home-grown solution.
  • Led an effort to modernize our infrastructure to an SOA approach using ECS, App Mesh, and Datadog.
Technologies: Go, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Docker, Terraform, SQS, Redis, ECS, Fargate, Codebuild, Datadog, BigQuery

Simple

Sr. Software Engineer // Technical Lead - SRE + Platform July 2015 - August 2018
  • Improved Mean Time to Recovery by 50%, and decreased the number of Outages per day by 60% in six months.
  • Upgraded applications, CI/CD, and monitoring systems to Kubernetes workloads. Reduced infrastructure costs by 8x, and deployment times 3x.
Technologies: Ruby, Go, Java, Scala, Kafka, PostgreSQL, SQS, DynamoDB, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog

Simply Measured

Software Engineer - Product / Data October 2013 - June 2015
  • Created Map Reduce jobs that normalized billions of rows of Facebook and Youtube data.
  • Identified and fixed memory leaks in mission critical worker processes.
  • Created supporting web services that decoupled SimplyMeasured's web product from the Salesforce CRM.
Technologies: Ruby, Go, Java, RabbitMQ, MySQL, HBase, Memcache

Sifteo

Software Engineer December 2011 - July 2013
  • Created an online Game Marketplace, which serviced tens of thousands of Sifteo Game purchases and downloads.
  • Created an Auditing Service, which collected Quality Assurance data on over 300,000 Sifteo Products created overseas.
Technologies: Ruby, Javascript, C++, C#, PostgreSQL, Redis

Software Contracting and Software Education

Software Engineer August 2008-December 2011
  • Built web services for clients as a Software Engineer at Originate
  • Created web services that enabled musicians to distribute their music as a Software Engineer at Kelly Dunn LLC
  • Taught fundamentals of Computer Science such as Data Structures, Algorithms, Databases, and Web Development at University of Washington
Technologies: Ruby, Java, Javascript, C, C++, MySQL, Chef, AWS

Certifications

AWS Cloud Solutions Architect - Associate Kanban Management Professional

Education

University of Washington

Bachelor of Arts in Japanese Linguistics September 2006 - June 2010