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Francis Kelly is Loomia's Chief Architect and is responsible for overseeing the development of Loomia's recommendation and personalization platform and managing Loomia's software development processes. He has 17 years experience in software development and IT consulting beginning with porting the Oracle RDMS to the Cray supercomputer, extending into heavy web application development and web-database connectivity issues, and lately concentrating on scalable and high quality recommendations algorithms.Prior to joining Loomia, Francis provided technical services to Dennis Kucinich's presidential bid. He also oversaw the technical development and launch of TallDates.com, an online dating service. Prior to that, he spent two years building a Java-based content syndication platform for Learning Network, a subsidiary of Pearson plc.In the early 1990s, Francis lived in Paris for three years where he held various consulting positions, taught at the Sorbonne, and translated a number of technical articles. He graduated from Yale University summa cum laude with a BA in mathematics (1990) and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. | 