Scott Walton
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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RockstarScott Walton is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Newcastle upon Tyne with 13 years of experience leading full‑stack teams at Hotjar, specialising in Python, Django and JavaScript. He blends hands‑on engineering and people leadership—progressing from lead developer roles to managing multiple teams while remaining an active open‑source maintainer, notably modernising the backbone.localstorage adapter with an ES6 refactor and improved testing. As organiser of Python North East he oversees marketing, finance and sponsorships, bringing community-building and operational rigour to technical programs. Early in his career he led development of Pebble’s Fund Manager, an innovative system that tied school catering to back‑office bookkeeping, illustrating his knack for pragmatic end‑to‑end solutions. He holds a first-class BSc in Computing Science from Newcastle University.
13 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (17)
unit-testing10
javascript10
s610
javascripts10
backbonejs10
backbone10
webpack39
localstorage9
webpack9
webpack59
webpack-39
webpacker9
webpack49
webpack-59
webpack29
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jeromegn/Backbone.localStorage
Feb 2017 - Aug 2017
A localStorage adapter for Backbone.js
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 41 PRs, 14 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Scott significantly refactored the `backbone.localstorage` library, rewriting it in ES6. They updated the codebase to include a license file, updated the README, and added code coverage configuration. Furthermore, they updated testing frameworks.
localstorage-adapterbackbonejavascriptadapterlocalstorage
mypebble/django-pgviews
Dec 2012 - Feb 2018
Fork of django-postgres that focuses on maintaining and improving support for Postgres SQL Views.
Contributions:20 commits, 16 PRs, 37 pushes in 5 years 3 months
pythondjangosqlpostgres-sqlpostgres
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