Andrew White
CTO at Unboxed
London, England, United Kingdom
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Andrew White is a veteran web technology leader and CTO with 18+ years building Rails-driven products and agencies out of London, combining deep Rails core contributions with hands-on delivery at Unboxed. He’s been contributing to Rails since 2007 and sits on the Rails Core Team, driving compatibility and fixes across the framework and ecosystem gems like globalize and sprockets-rails. Trained as an industrial designer and founder of a creative studio, he uniquely bridges product design and backend engineering to deliver thoughtful, user-centered systems. He mentors the next generation of Rails developers through programs like Google Summer of Code and Facebook OpenAcademy, and his open-source work shows a practical focus on cross-version compatibility and robustness.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Industrial Design BSc Hons, Industrial Design BSc Hons at Brunel University of London
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Github Skills (35)
ruby-rails10
testing10
command-line-interface10
rspec10
rails10
friendly-url10
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ruby10
compatibility10
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minitest10
activerecord10
unit-test10
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rails/sprockets-rails
Jul 2011 - Sep 2020
Sprockets Rails integration
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 14 commits, 2 PRs in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on maintaining and updating the Sprockets-Rails integration library. Their contributions included fixing deprecation warnings related to Sprockets and Action View, ensuring compatibility with newer Rails versions. They also addressed specific code issues by using the kwargs splat operator in Ruby 2.7+ and updating the test suite. The user's work helped to improve the stability and compatibility of the Sprockets-Rails library with the evolving Rails ecosystem.
ruby-on-railsrailsrubysprockets-railssprockets
rails/rails
May 2012 - Mar 2022
Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:100 reviews, 814 commits, 434 PRs in 10 years
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the Ruby on Rails framework, focusing on bug fixes and improvements to the codebase. Their work involved addressing specific issues related to date and time handling, queueing with Sidekiq, and various core extensions. Additionally, they implemented changes to routing and content security policy features within the framework. Their contributions demonstrate a deep understanding of the Rails internals and related libraries.
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