Where does Kevin Kelley work?

Kevin Kelley is Founder of SolidStage.

What companies did Kevin Kelley found?

Kevin Kelley founded SolidStage.

Where did Kevin Kelley go to school?

Kevin Kelley studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Computer Science); North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.

Kevin Kelley

Founder

Founder at SolidStage

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedSolidStage · YC

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About

Kevin Kelley is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. His prior work spans distributed systems, performance engineering, and complex critical systems, along with machine reasoning, automated planning, program analysis, and applied formal methods.

Founder at SolidStage YC W12

Intro paths

Kevin went through Y Combinator (Winter 2012) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $150K checks · since 2012

Co-founders at SolidStage

Tom BrownFounder

Experience

AnthropicMember of Technical Staffcurrent2024 — present
GoogleSoftware Engineer2020 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
CachecashCo-founder & CEO2017 — 2019
KernelSoftware Engineer2017
TwitchSenior Distributed Systems Engineer2016 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
SolidStageFounder2011 — 2015San Francisco Bay Area
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTeaching Assistant / Research Assistant2009 — 2011MIT CSAIL
Coatue ManagementCore Systems Architect2010 — 2011New York, NY

Skills & more

Python1CC++PostgreSQLDistributed Systems3Start-upsData Analysis1AnalyticsResearchBusiness Strategy1Software EngineeringEntrepreneurship1

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Kevin Kelley?: Kevin Kelley is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. His prior work spans distributed systems, performance engineering, and complex critical systems, along with machine reasoning, automated planning, program analysis, and applied formal methods.
Where does Kevin Kelley work?: Kevin Kelley is Founder of SolidStage.
What companies did Kevin Kelley found?: Kevin Kelley founded SolidStage.
Where did Kevin Kelley go to school?: Kevin Kelley studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Computer Science); North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.

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About

Founder at SolidStageYC W12

Intro paths

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Same school

Also attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology2,000

Also attended North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics26

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Also worked at Twitch41

Founder at SolidStage YC W12