Dirk Kelly
Staff Software Engineer at Down Under Software Consulting
Greater Perth Area Australia
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Top SchoolDirk Kelly is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years' experience building and operating full-stack web applications from Perth, Australia. He brings deep polyglot expertise across Ruby, PHP, Python, Node/TypeScript and front-end HTML/CSS, regularly working across AEST, AWST, UTC and US time zones. A former CTO who now consults, Dirk blends strategic technology leadership with hands-on delivery and operational pragmatism. He has a history of improving developer tooling and import workflows—contributing back-end enhancements and documentation to the well-known jekyll-import project to make WordPress migrations more flexible. Colleagues rely on him for practical solutions that bridge legacy systems and modern stacks. He holds a BSc in Internet Software Development from Murdoch University.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Internet Software Development BSc, Bachelor's degree, Internet Software Development BSc at Murdoch University
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Github Skills (3)
jekyll10
wordpress10
ruby10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jekyll/jekyll-import
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
:inbox_tray: The "jekyll import" command for importing from various blogs to Jekyll format.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Dirk contributed to the `jekyll-import` project by primarily modifying the WordPress importer. Their changes involved adding and modifying options for site prefix, post extensions, and file naming conventions. The user also made documentation updates to clarify parameter usage. These changes indicate a focus on enhancing the flexibility and functionality of the WordPress import process.
inboxtrayjekyll-importjekyll-pluginimporting
dirkkelly/dirkkelly
Feb 2015 - Apr 2021
Austramerican thinking about politics, economics, and technology during the people's struggle to survive the collapse of capitalism.
Contributions:32 PRs, 1272 pushes, 27 branches in 6 years 2 months
collapsereactpoliticseconomicsstruggle
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