My name is Kelly Sutton. I’m a software engineer living in Seattle. I’m the CTO and co-founder of Scholarly Software. Previously, I was on the engineering team at Gusto.

I’ve started and sold Designer News, HackCollege, and LayerVault. I was also known at one time for the Cult of Less.

If you would like to get in touch, please drop me an email.


Over the years, I’ve been fortunate to have some of the things I do recognized. Here is a partial list:
Ruby on Rails Podcast, Episode #322
2020
Maintainable Podcast, “Custodians of the Monolith”
2020
Rails with Jason Podcast, “Test Desiderata with Kent Beck and Kelly Sutton”
2020
Süddeutsche Zeitung, “Mehr weniger”
2016
Design Details Episode 115
2016
Deutsche Welle, Greed - A Fatal Desire
2016
Signal Tower
2014
Zeit, “Wenig ist genug”
2014
brand eins, “Ballast abwerfen”
2013
We are NY Tech
2011
NBC Nightly News
2010
BBC World News, “Cult of Less: Living out of a hard drive”
2010
CBC
2010
Der Spiegel
2010
Boing Boing
2010
The Times of London
2010
ERF
2010
FOLHA
2010
CNN Money
2010
ABC World News
2010
The Guardian
2010
PBS Media Shift
2010
Sydney Morning Herald
2010
You 2.0, A Documentary on Life Hacking
2008