Adrian Fish
Software Engineer at Learning Experiences and Longsight
Lancaster, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarAdrian Fish is a seasoned full-stack software engineer based in Lancaster, UK, with over a decade of focused experience modernising large Java-based open source systems. He is a major contributor and technical driver on the Sakai LMS, leading migrations from HQL to Spring Data/JPA, refactoring core services like grading, and adding features such as notifications and a user dashboard with JS widgets. His work spans backend database/query improvements, peer-review and grading logic, and front-end internationalisation—evidenced by contributions to the widely used sakai project and enhancements to a jquery i18n plugin. Comfortable as both a committer and technical lead, he has blended applied academia and production engineering from Lancaster University to freelance Scala/JS projects like DIALANG. Known for pragmatic API design (favoring clearer, fluent APIs and use of constructs like Optional), he combines deep legacy-code expertise with modernisation instincts to make large codebases more maintainable and user-focused.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
javas10
internationalization10
i18next10
localization10
javascript10
jquery10
back-end-development10
java10
sql9
json9
asynchronous8
async8
database-design8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sakaiproject/sakai
Jan 2015 - Jan 2023
Sakai is a freely available, feature-rich technology solution for learning, teaching, research and collaboration. Sakai is an open source software suite developed by a diverse and global adopter community.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1512 reviews, 1598 commits, 2358 PRs in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Adrian contributed to the backend logic, specifically in the `sakaiproject/sakai` repository which is focused on learning and collaboration. They primarily worked on code modifications related to assignment-related features, including grade overrides and database interactions. They modified core data structures and database queries. They also worked on functionality for peer review.
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jquery-i18n-properties/jquery-i18n-properties
Jun 2015 - Jul 2017
lightweight jQuery plugin for providing internationalization to javascript from ‘.properties’ files
Role in this project:Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:1 release, 55 commits, 51 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Adrian primarily focused on enhancing the internationalization capabilities of the jQuery i18n plugin. Their contributions include implementing features to support language-specific and regional variations in translations, as well as refactoring the language control logic. The user added the functionality to load language files asynchronously and added a debug flag. The user also fixed a bug related to missing file errors and improved the handling of browser language detection.
jquerytranslationjavascriptpropertiesinternationalization
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