Matthew Kelly
Director of Engineering, Developer Platform and DevOps
- Role
- Director of Engineering, Developer Platform and Devops at Collette
- Location
- Reston, VA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Matthew Kelly
Engineering leader with 13+ years of experience as a director, manager, tech lead and individual contributor with a proven track record of rapidly acquiring and applying best-in-class domain expertise. Skilled communicator with years of practice building consensus and mentoring junior engineers. Pragmatic decision maker capable of balancing immediate business needs with building maintainable systems in order to increase organizational capacity to execute.
Experience
Director of Engineering, Developer Platform and Devops
Jun 2024 — Present
Founded and scaled the Developer Platform team from the ground up, growing it from 0 to 6 engineers while leading a broad modernization initiative across infrastructure, tooling, and culture- Drove organization-wide DevOps transformation: implemented infrastructure as code (IaC), cloud deployment pipelines, incident response processes, observability/alerting systems, and CI/CD automation- Led the migration from Bitbucket to GitHub, including vendor evaluation and enterprise adoption of GitHub Actions—modernizing build and deployment workflows for 30+ production applications and services- Partnered with engineering and leadership teams to improve service reliability, developer velocity, and cloud efficiency, introducing DORA metrics, service cataloging, and spend modeling to guide strategy- Served as both technical and organizational leader, acting as a principal and a escalation engineer during team build out while setting strategic direction for platform modernization- Conducted ~40% of all company coding interviews; shaped hiring standards and practices across engineering- Navigated complex organizational dynamics to deliver change leadership and build credibility across teams with limited resources.
Education
Springfield Technical Community College
Associate of Science (AS), Mathematics
2007 — 2010
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science
2010 — 2012
Skills
- Node.js
- Software Engineering
- Postgresql
- Linux
- Jquery
- Java
- Css
- Programming
- Bash
- Javascript
- Algorithms
- Ansible
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