Kelly & Coffee
Tech & navigating the cloud
You bring the coffee, I'll bring the automation. DevOps, cloud engineering, and low-code workflows that get your platform running.
- CI/CD & DevOps
- GCP cloud engineering
- n8n & low-code automation
Automation · Cloud · Neurodivergent advocacy
Automation by day. Advocacy out loud.
I'm Kelly — a DevOps & automation engineer who also writes and speaks about being AuDHD and queer in tech. Two sides of the same person. Pick a door.
What I do
Neurodiversity & advocacy
Being AuDHD & queer in tech
Writing and public speaking on neurodivergence, accessibility, and showing up as your whole self in technology.
- Public speaking & talks
- AuDHD & lived experience
- Accessibility & inclusion
From the blog
All posts →A Second Read: Using AI When Rejection-Sensitive Dysphoria Hits
If you’ve read my post on RSD at work, you already know the shape of this one. Rejection-sensitive dysphoria is the part of my ADHD that turns a neutral …
AI as an Executive-Function Scaffold for ADHD
The hardest part of any task, for me, has never been doing the task. It’s the wall I hit before the task — the one where I know exactly what needs to …
AI as Assistive Tech for Autistic Communication
A lot of my energy at work doesn’t go on the work. It goes on the wrapping — the constant, low-level translation between what I mean and what neurotypical …
AuDHD: When Autism and ADHD Share a Brain
People are often surprised you can be both autistic and ADHD at once. They picture them as opposites — the autistic person who craves sameness and rigid …
Diagnosed, Let Go, and Finding the Volume Knob
I’ve been putting off writing this one, which is very on-brand for me. It’s the post where the personal and the professional collide — the stretch …
Getting Named at Forty: My AuDHD Diagnosis
I was nearly forty when I finally got the words. Autistic. ADHD. Both — the combination some of us call AuDHD. The autism piece landed first, early in 2023; the …