Kelly Davis
Software Engineer at Vercel
Orlando, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKelly Davis is a seasoned software engineer with two decades of experience and 11 years in senior and staff roles building backend services, frontends, and client libraries across startups and large enterprises. Currently at Vercel after shaping TinaCMS cloud infrastructure and APIs as Principal Engineer at Forestry.io, Kelly blends hands-on engineering with product-minded architecture for scalable, elegant solutions. They have led MLOps and personalization efforts at WarnerMedia, accelerating ML model development and implementing serverless, Terraform-driven infrastructure and CI/CD for production systems. An active open-source contributor to TinaCMS, Kelly has improved its data layer, media manager, and search capabilities—work that touches both developer experience and content workflows. Based in Orlando, Kelly is driven by a belief that simple, well-crafted technology can have outsized positive impact and enjoys rapidly adopting new tools to ship better software faster.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Engineering, MS Computer Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityBS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at University of Central Florida
Spanish
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Github Skills (28)
content-management-system10
cms10
javascript10
typescript10
nextjs10
indexing10
wpgraphql10
searching10
jamstack10
wordpress-graphql10
typescript-types10
graphql10
typescripts10
react10
back-end-development9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tinacms/tina.io
Dec 2021 - Nov 2022
Website for TinaCMS 🦙 - General info, documentation, blogs & contribution guidelines.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:113 reviews, 20 commits, 62 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Kelly contributed to the TinaCMS website by implementing and documenting features, and addressing bug fixes. Their work involved updating the "Going to production" section, documenting data querying with the data layer, and adding a search functionality. Furthermore, they made updates to the schema and types, and improved the analytics exporting for the search feature.
cms-frameworkreactcontribution-guidelinesjamstackguidelines
tinacms/tinacms
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
A fully open-source headless CMS that supports Markdown and Visual Editing
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:463 reviews, 83 commits, 234 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Kelly primarily focused on enhancing the backend and data layer functionality of the TinaCMS project. Their contributions involved fixing bugs, refactoring code, and implementing new features like pagination, filtering, and sorting. They also made improvements to the indexing process, optimized schema handling, and addressed issues related to reference integrity. Additionally, the user worked on the media manager, adding capabilities for custom media types and improving the handling of uploads.
cmsreactforestrytinacmstina
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