Kevin Kelley
FounderFounder at SolidStage
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedSolidStage · YC
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 SolidStageYC W12
Intro paths
YC
Kevin went through Y Combinator (Winter 2012) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Kevin can intro founders to SolidStage's investors below.
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Co-founders at SolidStage
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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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