About Me
My name is Michael Kelly. I live in Greater Pittsburgh, PA, and work as a Software Engineering Manager at Proofpoint.
Education
- Graduate (2011-2014):
- MS in Information Science, at the University of Pittsburgh. Projects
- Undergraduate (2003-2008):
- BS in Cognitive Science, at Carnegie Mellon University.
Work History
- Sr. Manager, Engineering, Proofpoint (2023-Present)
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- Lead 2 teams of software engineers (11 in total), one focused on bug fixes and ”quick wins”, the other on email client integrations for reporting suspicious emails (PhishAlarm).
- Sustaining Engineering Manager, Proofpoint (2021-2023)
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- Lead a team of 6 software engineers, working to fix bugs in various parts of the Proofpoint Security Awareness Training (PSAT) product portfolio.
- Senior Application Support Developer, Proofpoint (2020-2021)
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- Identified root cause of, and fixed, various tricky or lingering bugs in the Proofpoint Security Awareness Training (PSAT) product portfolio
- Senior Software Engineer, DQE Communications (2020)
- Web Application Developer (Software Engineer III), DQE Communications (2014-2020)
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- Maintained and modernized a Java based web application to manage network services for our customers.
- Integrated with 3rd party network provisioning systems over CORBA and RESTful XML APIs
- Integrated with 3rd party CRM systems over RESTful APIs
- Improved the reliability of the system by adding automated testing, reproducable builds.
- Mentored junior developers.
- Coordinated efforts of multiple consultants.
- Modernized server architecture, with an eye towards “Devops”.
- Built a modern application development & deployment pipeline.
- Assisted in the migration to, and integration with, a 3rd party IPAM and DNS solution.
- Improved the availability of our primary application by adding redundancy at different tiers.
- Built features based upon a message oriented middleware architecture.
- Migrated our Java web application to run on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, along with supporting infrastructure (RDS, SES, MQ)
- Software Engineer II, PNC (2013-2014)
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- Using primarily Java, worked on projects related to PNC.com
- Worked to integrate vendor-designed websites with the Adobe CQ Web Content Management platform
- Major Projects:
- PNC Locator: maintenance and improvements to the ATM and Branch locator website and data loading process.
- PNC.com: helped to launch a rebuilt version of the site on a new platform, working to improve the scalability of the application
- Software Developer I/II, pair Networks (2008-2013)
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- Developed customer facing systems in perl
- Front end development (including jQuery-driven AJAX UIs)
- Back end development (account management services, software installation, etc)
- Major Projects:
- pairSIM (Software Installation Manager): a tool for “one click” installations of popular web applications (e.g. WordPress, Drupal, etc)
- System Notification System: allowed customer to subscribe to notifications about outages for their individual servers, as well as larger-scale outages, via Email or RSS
- Backups file browser: provided a tool for customers to browse “snapshots” of their files in time
- Developed customer facing systems in perl
- Student for Gentoo Linux, Google Summer of Code (2006)
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- Worked on an addition to Gentoo’s package management software to improve management of users and groups for system packages (GLEP 27)
- Gained experience drafting project proposals, and programming shell scripts
Resume
You can download my resume.