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Work

Employment and highlights — Kelly Michels, with ongoing focus on software design and UI design alongside QA and delivery.

Employment

Principal Software QA Engineer / Senior QA Engineer — Autodesk (2006–2026)

Impact & recognition highlights

  • Supported thousands of beta users across continuous two-week sprint release cycles, ensuring stability, feedback integration, and production readiness.
  • Core QA contributor for Autodesk AI MotionMaker and ML Toolkit from initial development through production release of AI-driven animation workflows.
  • Supported executive demo readiness for Autodesk AI MotionMaker showcased at TechX 2025, presented by Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost.
  • Contributed to Autodesk AI MotionMaker earning the Customer Experience Award at TechX 2026 through end-to-end QA validation and release stability.
  • Led QA strategy and execution for flagship Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max platforms.
  • Built automation and API testing tools using Python, PHP, PowerShell, and AI-assisted workflows (Cursor, GitHub, Copilot).
  • Integrated automated testing into Jenkins CI/CD pipelines with Artifactory artifact management.
  • Authored test plans, regression strategies, and validation matrices.
  • Extensive experience working in an Agile, highly collaborative, team-based environment, partnering with engineering, product, UX, and release teams across continuous two-week sprint cycles.
  • Corporate-level Centercode Administrator for Autodesk, owning enterprise beta infrastructure and serving as Beta Program Manager for Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya.

Projects

evo.ehs

Industrial EHS permit lifecycle platform for multi-plant manufacturers — tracking obligations, evidence, and compliance workflows.

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evo-ai

A multi-tenant RAG platform I designed and built — answers grounded only in an organization's own records, with citations. Deployed in production as the "Ask AI" capability inside evo.ehs.

Open case study

evo.platform

The multi-tenant foundation beneath these apps — shared authentication, row-level data isolation, and a common SDK. Internal platform, currently proving out against evo.provensheet and evo.docketmail.

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evo.testsuites

Every test suite in every project runs once a day and every individual test is kept — a street light for the fleet, daily pass-rate history, and per-suite detail down to the test. A failing suite hands a dossier to a headless Claude session that files the bug and opens a fix PR.

Open the board

evo.civilcode

Texas statutes Q&A built on evo-ai — every answer cited to a specific section with a link to the official text, answered by a local model. Currently in beta.

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evo.provensheet

Web-based estimating platform for major industrial capital projects, converted from an 18-sheet Excel methodology refined over 30 years of in-field use.

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evo.docketmail

Automated court-record monitoring for Southeast Texas — surfaces new filings and generates targeted direct-mail pieces from the data, on a schedule.

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evo.zscripts

Open-source PowerShell CLI that collapses the start/deploy/backup chores of a multi-project AWS stack into one-word commands, built for AI-assisted development.

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evo.locate

Open-source self-hosted IP geolocation API — no key, no per-query cost, and no visitor IP leaves the machine. A drop-in replacement for ip2location.io's free tier.

Source on GitHub ↗

evo.confetti

A confetti renderer built because most effects throw dots along a ballistic arc and read as sparks. Paper is nearly all surface and almost no mass, so this models the real thing — air drag, tumble-driven flutter, and a grid of twenty-five firing positions. One file, no dependencies, no build step.

Fire it live

Self-hosted platform

Everything on this site runs on infrastructure I designed, built, and operate end-to-end — a single nginx edge, containerized services, self-hosted email and Git, and full metrics and dashboards, on one AWS box with no managed PaaS.

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evo.qaforaisystems

Principal QA / SDET practice applied to a production LLM platform I designed and built — a documented defect loop against text-to-SQL, retrieval, and guardrail failure modes.

Open case study

Analytics dashboard

Self-hosted visitor analytics for every site here — sessions, page views by path, status-code distribution, and per-visitor geolocation answered locally by evo.locate on the same box, so visitor data never reaches a third-party service. A single HTML dashboard served by the nginx edge, parsing its own access logs.

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