Kyle Keesling
CTO & Founding Partner at PASS Training & Compliance
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Keesling is a tech founder and CTO with 14 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native SaaS products for environmental compliance. As a founding partner at PASS, he architected and maintains both the PASS LMS and PASS Tools from the ground up using Ruby on Rails, Postgres, and Redis, and runs integrations with Stripe, Salesforce, Heroku, and AWS. He combines product ownership and executive strategy—responsible for vision, growth, and every product decision—with day-to-day engineering leadership. Kyle has a background in data warehousing and analytics from public-sector and healthcare roles, which informs his emphasis on auditable, standards-driven compliance workflows. An active contributor to the Ruby on Rails project, his commits focus on fixing subtle bugs and improving documentation for core components like ActiveStorage and ActionMailbox. Based in Indianapolis, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with pragmatic engineering to deliver reliable, user-friendly compliance software.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BS of Business Administration Information Systems, BS of Business Administration Information Systems at Ball State University
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Github Skills (20)
ruby-rails10
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rails10
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tinytds6
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rails/rails
Apr 2018 - Dec 2020
Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Kyle contributed to the Ruby on Rails framework by fixing bugs related to ActiveStorage, and updating documentation. Their contributions include addressing issues with IE11 compatibility in direct uploads and updating attachment model documentation. The user also addressed controller-related problems within the ActionMailbox component of the Rails framework, specifically correcting file name handling. The user's changes highlight a focus on bug fixes and documentation updates within the context of the Rails framework.
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kylekeesling/kylekees
Mar 2017 - May 2021
my website's source code
Contributions:10 PRs, 76 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 3 months
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