Patrick Kelly
Chief Technology Officer at Kindly
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Kelly is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 13 years of experience building and scaling product-focused engineering teams across Vancouver and beyond. As CTO at Kindly and former CEO/founder of Frontly, he blends hands-on software craftsmanship with startup instincts to deliver customer-facing platforms that replace spreadsheets and manual processes. He co-founded DropCommerce and has a history of shipping front-end React/Redux applications and back-end integrations, including notable contributions to the popular Vanilla Forums ecosystem around social login and add-on tooling. Patrick is comfortable toggling between strategy and code, from product-market fit and fundraising to refactoring authentication plugins and improving developer tooling. His background launching consumer services like SnackEasy and working in support roles gives him a pragmatic empathy for operations and end users. That mix of entrepreneurial grit, full-stack fluency, and open-source contribution informs how he builds resilient teams and practical systems.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Rutland Senior Secondary
English
Github Skills (10)
plugin-development10
php10
facebook-api10
oauth10
addon10
plugin10
forum9
api9
apim9
javascript7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
vanilla/addons
Jul 2015 - Jul 2020
Official add-ons and tools for Vanilla Forums.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:95 commits, 66 PRs, 65 pushes in 5 years
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Vanilla Forums add-ons and tools. Their work involved modifications to existing plugins, including Akismet, CivilTongueEx, JSConnect, and others. The commits demonstrate efforts in refining existing features, adding new functionality like the ability to clean up private messages, and improving the user experience, such as adding Javascript debugging.
discourseadd-onsvanilla-forumsaddonsforum
vanilla/vanilla
May 2015 - Jun 2020
Vanilla is a powerfully simple discussion forum you can easily customize to make as unique as your community.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 275 commits, 211 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the Facebook social connect plugin, implementing features for user authentication and integration with the Facebook platform. Their work involved updating the plugin's version, refactoring code, and modifying the plugin's functionality. Key changes included updating the Facebook API scope and fixing issues related to settings configuration.
vanilla-forumssimple-discussionphpforumdiscussion-board
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