Oliver Emberton
Founder at Silktide Ltd
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarOliver Emberton is a serial entrepreneur, programmer and writer who has led Silktide since founding it in 2001 and now also serves as CTO of Metamorph AI. He blends C-suite leadership with hands-on engineering—starting programming at eight, writing assembler at nine and building a million-line, Windows-like GUI (including a custom video codec and browser) as a teenager. An established writer whose work has appeared in Forbes, Huffington Post and Lifehacker and been translated into more than ten languages, he also authored the most upvoted answer and most-followed blog on Quora. On GitHub he contributes front-end improvements to notable open-source projects such as the widely used cookieconsent demo, focusing on responsive design and UX polish. Based in Austin, he mixes product-driven strategy with deep technical craft and is even penning a novel in his spare time.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
html10
css10
user-interface10
ui-design10
graphical-user-interface10
javascript9
javascripts9
ui-designer8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
osano/cookieconsent
Jun 2015 - May 2017
A free solution to the EU, GDPR, and California Cookie Laws
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 3 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily focused on the front-end development of the project, contributing significant effort to the design and implementation of the demo pages. Their work involved refining the styling and layout of the demo examples, as well as improving the user interface for different themes and functionalities. They also added links and made the demos responsive, which enhanced the overall user experience. The commits demonstrate a strong focus on CSS styling and HTML structure.
legalcookie-consentjavascriptccpaeu-gdpr
silktide/HTML_CodeSniffer
Jun 2018 - Oct 2019
HTML_CodeSniffer is a client-side JavaScript application that checks a HTML document or source code, and detects violations of a defined coding standard. Comes with standards that cover the three conformance levels of the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and the U.S. Section 508 legislation.
Contributions:8 releases, 14 pushes, 8 tags in 1 year 4 months
legislationaccessibilitywcag-guidelineshtml-codesniffersection-508
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