Andy Babic is an experienced back-end Python developer based in Leicester with 11 years of hands-on experience building and refining Django-based systems. He specializes in Django and Wagtail, contributing meaningful fixes and refactors to high-profile open-source projects like wagtail and jazzband/wagtailmenus to improve menu rendering, modularity, and many-to-many field handling. Andy’s strengths lie in backend architecture, code readability, and pragmatic bug fixes that enhance CMS behavior and developer ergonomics. He combines steady long-term maintenance with targeted feature work, and often improves existing code by splitting monoliths into clearer, more maintainable components.
An app to help you manage and render menus in your Wagtail projects more effectively
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:45 releases, 6 reviews, 235 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the `wagtailmenus` project by merging branches and modifying the template tags and related code. Their work involved refactoring and fixing bugs in the menu rendering logic, especially around level-specific sub menu templates. They also focused on improving code readability and optimizing various aspects of menu class behavior.
A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:411 reviews, 119 commits, 161 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily focused on improving the backend of the Wagtail CMS. Their contributions included splitting existing files into more modular components within the `contrib.modeladmin` module. They also addressed issues related to the display of ManyToManyField values in the InspectView and implemented features that improved page copy behavior. Furthermore, they made a number of general enhancements and resolved bugs, such as fixes to improve the rendering of many-to-many values, and updates to the documentation.
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