# Kyle K. > Software Engineer, Infra Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kylek1 ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer, Infrastructure @ Render Jan 2022 – Present Keeping an eye on hundreds of thousands of kubernetes pods and helping to manage all the things that make them work. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Yelp Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Joined the newly formed Client Data team to build GraphQL infrastructure and make it the standard way all of Yelp’s platforms interfaced with Yelp’s backend * Added features to Yelp’s node.js generated client libraries to support mutations in GraphQL * Led project to codify ownership of all GraphQL type resolvers and operations across all of Yelp’s platforms * Built observability and monitoring tooling for our GraphQL so engineers could monitor and observe the performance and healthiness of their operations and resolvers ### Engineering Manager @ Yelp Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Helped to create & manage the Continuous Integration & Delivery (CID) team. Spent the first year leading the team through migrating our git and code review stack to Github Enterprise. Worked with technical leadership on the team to identify and prioritize other opportunities for improving developer velocity. ### Software Engineer @ Yelp Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Worked on an internal tools and CI/CD team. Built and maintained various custom and 3rd party infrastructure for continuous release workflows across mobile, backend, and frontend platforms. * Helped build a way to highly parallelize testing across cloud compute cluster using a custom mesos scheduler and hundreds of auto-scaling EC2 instances. * On the team that built and maintained test reporting infrastructure on top of elasticsearch capable of handling millions of new test results per day. * Worked to modernize the Jenkins CI infrastructure by providing easily configurable, auto-scaling, self-repairing, and resilient for hundreds of developers across over a thousand CI/CD pipelines. ### Head Teacher's Assistant @ GT College of Computing Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Atlanta, GA Head TA of the introductory course to systems, processor design, and networking. Previously TAed a course on Agile software development. ### Tutor @ GT College of Computing Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 ### Developer Support Engineer @ Palantir Technologies Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Palo Alto, California Main role was to handle API, software, and system administration bugs from developers at Palantir Gotham deployments. Was solo designer and developer on an internal web application written on the Ruby on Rails framework. Debugged and wrote bug fixes for the main Palantir Gotham platform, and worked closely with large deployments to diagnose and fix new performance issues. ### Software Developer @ CareerBuilder.com Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Norcross, GA Worked side by side with full time software developers maintaining back-end systems code for CareerBuilder automated processes. Worked primarily in VB.NET in Visual Studio. ## Education ### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology ### Dual Enrollment Snead State Community College ### High School Albertville High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kyledkelly - Portfolio: https://kylekelly.dev/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/kylek1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kylek1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10