Frank Wiles
Partner at REVSYS
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Summary
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RockstarFrank Wiles is a seasoned technology consultant and partner at REVSYS with 25+ years of hands-on experience optimizing performance, cloud infrastructure, and developer velocity for organizations moving to Django, Kubernetes, and PostgreSQL. He combines deep open-source pedigree—years of contributions to high-profile projects like Wagtail, python.org and Django itself and five years as President of the Django Software Foundation—with practical leadership running REVSYS and acquiring Grove.io. Frank’s work blends backend engineering, site reliability, and business process automation, and he’s known for tuning systems at scale while mentoring teams to ship faster and safer. Based in Lawrence, Kansas, he brings a longtime curiosity about “how things work under the hood,” a career-long commitment to open source, and an uncommon track record of shaping both community projects and production infrastructure.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
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Github Skills (36)
cms10
website-development10
python10
validations10
django10
css10
html-template10
validation10
python-templates10
sc10
code-templates10
apptemplates10
wagtail10
scs10
database-design10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
revsys/django-friendship
Aug 2011 - Jan 2023
Django app to manage following and bi-directional friendships
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 166 commits, 36 PRs in 11 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Frank primarily contributed to the development of the Django-based application, focusing on core functionality related to friendship management. Their work involved creating and modifying models, adding URL patterns, and implementing view stubs. Additionally, the user introduced caching mechanisms to improve performance and template tags for easier integration into the application's templates. They also addressed bugs and performed code cleanups to improve overall code quality.
pythonfollowingdjangofriendshipbi-directional
python/pythondotorg
Jul 2013 - Aug 2015
Source code for python.org
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:358 commits, 15 PRs, 113 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Frank contributed extensively to the `python/pythondotorg` repository, demonstrating a strong focus on backend development with Python and Django, including the creation of a "Minutes" application and the addition of features for a "PEPs" app, including HTML content conversion and RSS feeds. The user also worked on the site's front-end by updating the CSS styling. Furthermore, the user implemented administrative and database changes.
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