Hey there,

I'm Kelly

Passionate software engineer and musician — backend, infra, and the (French) Horn.

Portrait of Kelly Brown

About

I'm a fullstack software engineer who loves backend systems and infrastructure — the kind of work where reliability, clarity, and good tooling actually matter.

By day I keep busy at my day job; on my own time I built cdk-starter, a CLI for spinning up AWS CDK projects faster. I mostly work in Java, with plenty of Go and Python too. Lately I've been deep in Temporal and really enjoying what durable workflows unlock.

Off the keyboard I'm a musician — the Horn is my go-to when I need to reset after a long debugging session.