Thomas Kelly · Project Management · Product Strategy

Thomas Kelly — Project & Product Manager in Charlotte, NC. Bridging Technology and Business

Computer Science student and product-focused operator experienced in turning technical ideas into organized, measurable outcomes.

I work at the intersection of technology, business strategy, and execution. I translate complex requirements, align stakeholders, and help teams move products from concept to launch.

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Available to start December 2026 — graduating from UNC Charlotte with a B.A. in Computer Science, concentration in Information Technology

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Thomas Kelly Project Management · Product Strategy · Technology

Experience in

  • Project Coordination
  • Product Development
  • Agile and Scrum
  • Jira
  • Product Roadmapping
  • Product Backlog
  • Stakeholder Communication
  • Business Analysis
  • Operations
  • Applied AI

01 · About

Fluent in the technology and the business case.

I've always had a passion for business, which is why I target roles where business and technology intersect. I'm a Computer Science student at UNC Charlotte, concentrating in Information Technology and graduating in December 2026. My technical education has taught me how engineering teams think, including system architecture, development tradeoffs, and the challenges that affect timelines and delivery.

Co-founding two startups gave me experience on the other side of the equation, including defining product direction, managing scope, researching customer needs, developing pricing, coordinating teams, and communicating with stakeholders.

I bring both perspectives together to help teams stay aligned, make informed decisions, and move important work forward.

I'm currently seeking full-time opportunities where I can contribute to product delivery while serving as a bridge between technical teams, business leaders, and customers.

Roles I'm targeting

  1. 01

    Project Coordinator

    Orchestrating schedules, dependencies, risks, and communication to keep delivery teams organized and moving forward.

  2. 02

    Project Manager

    Directing scope, timelines, stakeholders, and execution from initial planning through successful delivery.

  3. 03

    Product Owner

    Translating customer and business needs into clear priorities, actionable requirements, and a product backlog engineers can build from.

  4. 04

    Business Analyst

    Turning requirements, data, and operational challenges into clear insights and practical business decisions.

02 · Experience

Where I've put these skills into practice.

March 2026 — Present

Pylor LLC

Co-Founder and Product Manager

  • Product Strategy
  • Roadmapping
  • Customer Discovery

Pylor is an AI workforce platform designed to help service businesses automate essential operational and customer-facing responsibilities. I work alongside my co-founder to define the product strategy and lead the roadmap across market selection, pricing, integrations, and customer discovery.

  • Defined the product strategy for a 33-agent AI workforce platform, including launch verticals, a three-tier pricing model, and an integration roadmap covering Stripe, Twilio, HubSpot, and QuickBooks.
  • Facilitate daily standups across the founding and sales teams, keeping development priorities aligned with go-to-market objectives.
  • Conduct discovery interviews with med spa owners and translate operational challenges into clear product requirements, contributing to the acquisition of the company's first paying customers.
  • Recruited, onboarded, and currently manage a three-person sales team.
  • Designed the team's commission structure and created a repeatable demonstration workflow with the capacity to reach more than 2,100 prospects each week.
  • Built a retrieval-augmented generation pipeline to improve the reliability of internal AI tools and reduce hallucinated responses.
  • Identified lower-complexity workloads that could be moved away from frontier-model APIs, helping reduce inference costs without sacrificing essential functionality.

September 2025 — March 2026

World Community Social

Co-Founder and Head of Operations

  • Operations
  • Agile Delivery
  • Sprint Management

World Community Social is a social platform developed remotely with an intern engineering team and grown entirely through organic channels.

  • Co-founded and launched a social platform that grew to more than 1,400 users without paid promotion.
  • Led weekly standups and sprint reviews with an intern development team, tracking deliverables, addressing blockers, and keeping releases on schedule.
  • Applied Agile practices to accelerate the development, testing, and release of features shaped by user feedback.
  • Coordinated operational priorities across product development, team communication, and platform growth.

2024 — Present

Connecting The Gap

Student Board Member · Nonprofit Organization

  • Frontend Development
  • Automation
  • Strategic Advisory

I support Connecting The Gap, a Charlotte-based nonprofit, through technical development and operational guidance.

  • Built the complete frontend for the 9ForMine fundraising campaign, taking the experience from initial layout through launch.
  • Advised the founder on opportunities to automate repetitive operational tasks and create more time for mission-focused work.
  • Contributed a technical and product-focused perspective to conversations about the organization's digital initiatives.

03 · Projects

Selected work.

Product Strategy 01

Pylor

An AI workforce platform featuring 33 specialized agents for service businesses. I helped define its launch markets, three-tier pricing structure, customer discovery process, and integration roadmap.

Co-Founder and Product Manager View Project Details
Technology 02

Joker's Edge

A production multi-sport analytics platform covering five professional leagues, supported by automated daily data ingestion and performance grading workflows.

Product Lead View Project Details
Project Management 03

9ForMine Campaign

A complete frontend experience developed for a nonprofit fundraising campaign and managed from initial layout through launch.

Frontend Developer and Board Member View Project Details
Entrepreneurship 04

World Community Social

A social platform that grew to more than 1,400 users organically while being developed through weekly sprints with a remote intern engineering team.

Co-Founder and Head of Operations View Project Details

04 · Skills

What I bring to a team.

Project Management

Coordinating scope, schedules, dependencies, risks, and deliverables within a plan the team can confidently follow.

Product Strategy

Connecting customer needs and business goals to product roadmaps, pricing decisions, and launch priorities.

Agile and Scrum

Leading standups and sprint reviews while maintaining a Jira backlog that reflects current priorities and delivery realities.

Business Analysis

Gathering requirements, conducting customer discovery, evaluating processes, and turning findings into actionable recommendations.

Stakeholder Management

Keeping founders, engineers, customers, and business teams aligned through clear and proactive communication.

Technical Communication

Translating engineering constraints for business stakeholders while giving technical teams the context behind business requirements.

Operations

Building repeatable processes across hiring, team coordination, sales structures, and product delivery.

Technology and AI

Working knowledge of Python, SQL, REST APIs, cloud concepts, and retrieval-augmented generation systems, with enough depth to evaluate feasibility and communicate effectively with engineers.

Go-to-Market

Choosing launch verticals, structuring tiered pricing, and building the demo workflow that turns a product into first paying customers.

Team Leadership

Recruiting, onboarding, and managing a small team, including designing the incentive structure that attracts one.

Integrations and APIs

Scoping third-party integrations across Stripe, Twilio, HubSpot, and QuickBooks, and judging what each one costs to build.

Customer Discovery

Interviewing operators and translating what they actually struggle with into requirements engineers can build from.

Credentials

Certifications and Badges

Credentials verified through Credly.

AWS Academy Graduate — Cloud Foundations badge AWS Academy Graduate — Cloud Foundations AWS Academy Graduate — Data Engineering badge AWS Academy Graduate — Data Engineering Introduction to HTML, CSS, & JavaScript badge Introduction to HTML, CSS, & JavaScript Computer Hardware Basics badge Computer Hardware Basics

Memberships

Organizations I belong to

Professional and leadership communities I'm an active member of.

05 · Contact

Let's turn ideas into
measurable outcomes.

linkedin.com/in/thomaskelly05

I'm seeking full-time opportunities in project coordination, project management, product ownership, and business analysis, and I'm available to start December 2026.

If you're building a product, improving a process, or looking for someone who can connect technical work with business objectives, I'd be glad to start a conversation.