Francis Kelly



Summary

Expertise

Experience

California Street Consulting - Greensboro, NC

Founder: Jun 2010 - present

Currently working with the Barnard Cognitive Development Center to build a tool for testing numerical cognition in children. Tool is written in Django with a substantial JavaScript component.


Loomia - San Francisco

Co-founder / CTO / Chief Architect / Director: Jan 2004 - Jun 2010

Responsible for the design and implementation of the Loomia personalization service, including SeenThis?, a Facebook social recommendation application. Designed the recommendations algorithms and the architecture of the system, which processed over 2B clicks a month and served 1.6B recommendations.


Had a range of responsibilities that went beyond technology, including:


Kucinich for President - San Francisco

Senior Developer: Jul 2003 - Oct 2003

Technical work related to fundraising and marketing for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 Presidential campaign.

Learning Network - San Francisco

Senior Developer: Jun 1999 - Feb 2002

Designed and implemented a variety of digital publication tools, written in Java using Oracle and SQL Server. Learning Network was a subsidiary of Pearson, responsible for disseminating Pearson's education content over the web.


Hitachi Data Systems - Santa Clara

Software Consultant: Sep 1995 - Apr 1998


Institut national de recherche pédagogique - Paris, France

System Administrator: Oct 1994 - Oct 1995

Maintained servers running HPUX. The INRP is now known as the l'Institut français de l'Éducation.


Centre national de la recherche scientifique - Paris, France

Technical Staff: Jan 1993 - Sep 1995

Assisted with programming and statistical analysis for a sociological study on AIDS. Translation of articles from French into English.


Oracle - Redwood Shores

Developer: Jul 1990 - Apr 1992

Responsible for porting the Oracle RDBMS (v6) to the Cray XMP and YMP systems.

Education

Yale University

Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, with Distinction in Mathematics, 1990
Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, 1990

Additional Information

Blog: http://fkelly.com

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Fluent in French