KitsonĀ Kelly
Chief Product And Technology Officer at A2B Australia Limited
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolKitson Kelly is a Chief Product and Technology Officer with 16 years of experience leading digital transformation and product engineering across transportation, media, and enterprise technology. Based in Melbourne, he combines executive leadership at A2B with deep hands-on engineeringāhaving been a core contributor to the Deno ecosystem and author of notable projects like Oak. He has a track record of modernizing legacy systems (payments, dispatch) while preparing businesses for future shifts such as autonomous vehicles. Kitson blends developer experience focus with strategic advisory work from CTO Labs and ThoughtWorks, translating technical risk into commercial advantage. His background spans front-end UI toolkits to runtime and compiler-level contributions, demonstrating rare fluency from TypeScript compiler internals to large-scale product delivery. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who bridges CXO strategy and code-level detail to produce sustainable, customer-focused outcomes.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, General Studies, High School Diploma, General Studies at Cactus High SchoolNone, Computer Science, None, Computer Science at Glendale Community College
French, English
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Github Skills (48)
colorize10
deno10
benchmark10
javascript10
tool-kit10
routers10
ui-components10
package-development10
plugin-development10
css10
testing10
module-loader10
typescript10
router10
benchmarking10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
denoland/vscode_deno
Nov 2020 - Oct 2022
Visual Studio Code plugin for Deno
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 85 commits, 177 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Kitson primarily worked on enhancing the Deno VS Code plugin, focusing on integrating with the Deno Language Server to provide more features and better functionality. Their contributions include refactoring the plugin to utilize the language server, suppressing certain built-in language service features, and adding new commands like caching and initializing the workspace. The user also worked on features such as adding code lenses for references and implementations.
visual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensiondenotypescript
oakserver/oak
Dec 2018 - Aug 2022
A middleware framework for handling HTTP with Deno, Node, Bun and Cloudflare Workers šæļø š¦
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 64 reviews, 382 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Kitson implemented the initial router implementation, which involved adding a router for handling HTTP requests with Deno. The contributions involved modifying the type definitions for Deno runtime as well as updating the test and examples in the project. The user's work included fleshing out the send functionality and its unit tests. The user ensured that all functionality works under standard library Deno.
deno-deploymiddleware-frameworkdenohandlingrouter-middleware
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