Tim Kelty
Director Of Engineering at Pixel & Tonic
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Kelty is a Director of Engineering with 17 years of experience leading web and DevOps teams from Grand Rapids, Michigan, currently steering engineering at Pixel & Tonic. He blends hands-on backend PHP expertise—demonstrated by substantive contributions to Craft CMS, Yii2, and Commerce—with build-tool and frontend build-process improvements from work on Neutrino. Tim’s background spans long-term agency and product roles, moving from web developer to DevOps and now engineering leadership, giving him a pragmatic focus on reliability, security, and deployment ergonomics. He’s known for quietly improving core systems (fixing logging, CSP, user/order handling) and for making build configurations more flexible and production-ready. Comfortable merging deep framework work with operational concerns, he helps teams ship stable, maintainable content and commerce platforms. Outside the org chart, his open-source contributions show a preference for fixing hard-to-spot bugs and improving developer experience.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
City High School
Github Skills (33)
yii10
application-framework10
content-management-system10
debug10
zero-configuration10
javascript10
cms10
back-end-development10
ecommerce10
css10
app-framework10
craftcms10
webpack10
php-framework10
php10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
neutrinojs/neutrino
Apr 2017 - Jan 2019
Create and build modern JavaScript projects with zero initial configuration.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 63 PRs, 48 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on enhancing the build process and project configuration of the neutrinojs/neutrino repository. Their contributions include adding support for various loaders (like image and font loaders), integrating style minification, and allowing for more flexible configuration through options. They also implemented features for web and node presets, such as easier browser targeting and server-side HTML options.
preactvuezero-configurationzeroeslint
craftcms/cms
Dec 2018 - Dec 2022
Build bespoke content experiences with Craft.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:123 reviews, 445 commits, 257 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Tim's commits primarily focus on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of Craft CMS. They addressed issues with extraneous logging in development mode, fixed typos, and adjusted the logging behavior for console requests. Additionally, they added features to remove user credentials and implemented security enhancements, such as adding CSP frame-ancestors. The contributions suggest a focus on maintaining and improving the core functionality of the content management system.
cmsbespokecraftprestashop-modulecraft3
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