Thomas Kelly · Project & Product

Bridging Technology & Business.

Computer Science student focused on Project Management, Product Strategy, and Technology.

I work at the intersection of technical teams, business strategy, and execution, helping products move forward and keeping both sides speaking the same language.

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Thomas Kelly Project · Product · Technology

Experience in

  • Project Coordination
  • Product Development
  • Agile / Scrum
  • Roadmap Planning
  • Stakeholder Communication
  • Business Analysis
  • Operations
  • Applied AI

01 · About

Fluent in both the code and the business case.

I'm a Computer Science student at UNC Charlotte, graduating in December 2026. Studying CS gave me the vocabulary of engineering teams — architecture, trade-offs, why an estimate slips. Co-founding two startups gave me the other half: scope, pricing, customer discovery, and the conversation a stakeholder actually needs to hear. I sit between the two and keep work moving.

Seeking full-time entry-level roles where I help advance a product and act as the link between technology and business.

Roles I'm targeting

  1. 01

    Project Coordinator

    Keeping schedules, dependencies, and status honest across a delivery team.

  2. 02

    Project Manager

    Owning scope, risk, and the plan that gets a release out the door.

  3. 03

    Product Owner

    Translating customer problems into a backlog engineers can build from.

  4. 04

    Business Analyst

    Turning requirements, data, and process into decisions people can act on.

02 · Experience

Where I've done the work.

Mar 2026 — Present

Pylor LLC

Co-Founder & Product Manager

  • Product Strategy
  • Roadmap
  • Discovery

An AI workforce platform for service businesses. I set product strategy alongside my co-founder and own the roadmap from launch verticals through integrations.

  • Set product strategy for a 22-role AI workforce platform — selecting launch verticals, structuring three-tier pricing, and prioritizing the integration roadmap across Stripe, Twilio, HubSpot, and QuickBooks.
  • Facilitate daily standups across founding and sales teams, aligning development priorities with go-to-market execution.
  • Run discovery interviews with med spa owners, translating operational pain points into product requirements; secured the company's first paying customers.
  • Recruited, onboarded, and manage a 3-person sales team; designed the commission structure used to attract them and a demo workflow with capacity to reach 2,100+ prospects weekly.
  • Built a retrieval-augmented generation pipeline to reduce hallucinated output in internal tooling, and migrated low-complexity workloads off frontier model APIs to lower inference costs.

Sep 2025 — Mar 2026

World Community Social

Co-Founder & Head of Operations

  • Operations
  • Agile
  • Sprint Reviews

A social platform startup, built remote with an intern development team and grown entirely through organic channels.

  • Co-founded and launched a social platform that grew to 1,400+ users organically with no paid promotion.
  • Led weekly standups and sprint reviews with an intern development team, tracking progress and keeping releases on schedule.
  • Applied Agile methodology to rapidly develop, test, and deploy features driven by user feedback.

2024 — Present

Connecting The Gap

Student Board Member · Nonprofit

  • Frontend
  • Automation
  • Advisory

Board-level work for a Charlotte nonprofit, covering both the build and the operational advice behind it.

  • Built the complete frontend for the 9ForMine fundraising campaign, from layout through launch.
  • Advised the founder on automating manual operational tasks to free staff time for mission-focused work.

03 · Projects

Selected work.

Product Strategy 01

Pylor

A 22-role AI workforce platform for service businesses — launch verticals, three-tier pricing, and the integration roadmap.

Co-Founder & PM Details
Technology 02

Joker's Edge

A multi-sport analytics engine covering five leagues, live in production with automated daily data and grading jobs.

Conceived & Directed Details
Project Management 03

9ForMine Campaign

The complete frontend for a nonprofit fundraising campaign, taken from layout through launch.

Board Member Details
Entrepreneurship 04

World Community Social

A social platform grown to 1,400+ users organically, run with an intern dev team on weekly sprints.

Co-Founder Details

04 · Skills

What I bring to a team.

Project Management

Scope, schedule, and risk held in one plan people actually follow.

Product Strategy

Roadmapping, pricing, and launch sequencing — with a reason behind each call.

Agile / Scrum

Standups, sprint reviews, and a backlog that reflects reality.

Business Analysis

Requirements gathering and customer discovery turned into a decision.

Stakeholder Management

Keeping founders, engineers, and customers informed before they ask.

Technical Communication

Explaining engineering constraints to the business, and the reverse.

Operations

Hiring, commission structures, and the systems that keep delivery repeatable.

Technology & AI

Python, SQL, REST APIs, and production RAG pipelines — enough depth to know what's realistic.

05 · Contact

Let's build
something measurable.