Kirk Shillingford
Community OSS Maintainer at Virtual Coffee
Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolKirk Shillingford is a Community OSS Maintainer and software engineer with a decade of experience building developer-focused tooling, distributed energy analysis, and type-safe backend systems. He organizes and mentors an international community of 200+ engineers at Virtual Coffee while contributing hands-on work in Elm, F#, TypeScript and Python across startups and fintech. His background blends environmental engineering and energy-data modeling with pragmatic software delivery—automating large-scale financial data pipelines and creating desktop and web apps for building-performance analysis. Kirk excels at documentation, onboarding, and remote collaborative processes, turning messy operational needs into maintainable, testable systems. Colleagues describe him as a practitioner who prioritizes helping others grow while shipping reliable, well-documented code.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), Mathematics, Physics, History, Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), Mathematics, Physics, History at Dominica State CollegeBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Environmental Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Environmental Engineering at City University of New York City College
English, French, French
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Github Skills (42)
quarto10
dictionary10
remix10
netlify9
elm9
homestead9
functional-programming9
frontend8
game-development8
api7
database6
open-source6
integrations6
markdown6
collaboration5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tkshill/Template
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
A template repository for looking to start their own OSS projects
Contributions:27 commits, 9 PRs, 23 pushes in 10 days
oss
tkshill/Typescript
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:38 commits, 24 pushes in 11 months
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