Amy Boyd
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAmy Boyd is a London-based Head of Engineering with 14 years of experience helping startups and enterprises turn product strategy into shipped software through her agency, Reason. Previously a CTO at two food-tech startups and an advisor/consultant across industries, she combines hands-on engineering with leadership in strategy, design, and team-building. She contributes to open-source projects such as urql-graphql—improving examples, docs and cache integration—which reflects a pragmatic focus on developer experience and reliable front-end tooling. An astrophysics graduate from the University of Edinburgh, she brings analytical rigor and a systems-thinking mindset to product and technical decisions.
14 years of coding experience
Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics at The University of Edinburgh
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Github Skills (31)
javascript10
wpgraphql10
php10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql-client10
graphql10
react10
mysql9
datetime9
java9
jquery9
inheritance9
typescript9
package9
typescript-types9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
urql-graphql/urql
Apr 2020 - May 2020
The highly customizable and versatile GraphQL client with which you add on features like normalized caching as you grow.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 13 PRs, 21 pushes in 27 days
Contributions summary:Amy primarily focused on improving the react-urql examples, fixing bugs and improving documentation. They addressed issues in example projects, including making the examples work correctly, upgrading dependencies, and adding missing README files. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating Graphcache, a caching solution, by adding options to configure and change parameters. They also addressed warnings and errors within the graphcache and the associated test files.
graphql-clientnormalizedurqlexchangecomplex-apps
amyboyd/editorconfig-cli
May 2016 - Dec 2016
A CLI tool that automates validating and applying .editorconfig rules against files and directories
Contributions:1 release, 38 commits, 3 pushes in 7 months
linterautomateseditorconfigcli-tooldirectories
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