Kave Mcdaniel
Co-Founder & Product Engineering at Aptolia
Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolKave Mcdaniel is a product-focused software engineer and co-founder with eight years of experience building user-centric front-end systems from Istanbul. He currently leads a lean multinational engineering team at Aptolia while contributing frontend expertise to RankWit AI and maintaining an independent consultancy streak that dates back to 2017. Kave’s work blends pragmatic product instincts with hands-on UI craft—he has enhanced developer-facing tooling and documentation for the popular Remotion project, adding showcase and editor organization features that improve discoverability and preview workflows. Comfortable across startups and small teams, he repeatedly ships polished interfaces that bridge product requirements and developer ergonomics. A learner who experiments with meta-learning and tuning, he pairs a Computer Science background from the University of Bern with a habit of breaking keyboards while iterating rapidly.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science (BCompSc), Bachelor of Computer Science (BCompSc) at University of BernAssociate’s Degree Computer Science, Associate’s Degree Computer Science at Imam Sadegh Babol
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Github Skills (11)
javascript10
360-video10
react10
docusaurus9
css9
debugging6
mql6
vim6
python6
metatrader6
ubuntu6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
remotion-dev/remotion
Mar 2021 - Mar 2022
🎥 Make videos programmatically with React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Kave primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Remotion documentation and preview tools. Their contributions include adding a "Showcase" section to the navigation bar, creating a dedicated showcase page with video previews, and implementing a "Folder" component for organizing compositions in the editor. They also modified the editor's title and updated the project path to display project-specific information.
reactvideosjavascriptvideoprogrammatically
kave-me/remotion
Mar 2021 - Dec 2024
🎥 Create videos programmatically in React
Contributions:15 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 9 months
reactvideosvideoprogrammaticallyreactjs
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