Dave Kiss
Community Engineer at Cuyahoga Valley Code Shop
Brecksville, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolDave Kiss is a Community Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building developer-facing tools and content that make the internet friendlier and more reliable. Based in Brecksville, Ohio, he blends full-stack engineering with advocacy—contributing back-end fixes to payment systems like the Payola Rails engine and enhancements to popular open-source projects such as the Roots Sage WordPress starter. He’s led engineering teams and run a regional software shop while also producing video and marketing strategy, giving him a rare mix of technical depth and storytelling skill. At Mux he focuses on developer experience and community, translating complex platform behaviors into practical guidance and code. Colleagues know him for shipping pragmatic solutions, documenting what he learns, and bridging product, community, and engineering.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Digital Media Production, B.S., Digital Media Production at The Art Institutes
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Github Skills (36)
ruby-rails10
jquery10
subscribe10
wordpress10
css10
rspec10
rails10
navbar10
ruby10
php10
manage10
payment-processing10
tailwindcss10
subscriber10
management10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
roots/sage
Dec 2016 - Jun 2017
WordPress starter theme with Laravel Blade components and templates, Tailwind CSS, and block editor support
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily focused on enhancing the WordPress starter theme, Sage, by integrating various CSS frameworks and making adjustments to theme functionality. Contributions include adding Tachyons as a CSS framework option, transitioning to official SASS transpiled partials, and updating the theme's build configuration and dependencies. They also merged updates from the master branch and made minor adjustments to the theme's setup and file structure.
components-and-templatestailwindcsstailwindwordpress-laravelstarter-theme
payolapayments/payola
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Drop-in Rails engine for accepting payments with Stripe
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Payola Rails engine, focusing on payment processing and subscription management. Their work included fixing bugs related to subscription behavior and ensuring payment sources were correctly assigned to existing customers. They added functionality, such as sending the plan ID with form submissions to enable more flexible implementation. Additionally, the user tested payment source integration in a subscription, which improved the robustness of the system.
paymentsstripedrop-inrailsrails-engine
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