Anthony Barnes
Software Engineer at Squiz
Canberra, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAnthony Barnes is a software engineer based in Canberra with 14 years of professional experience building web solutions and leading implementations at Squiz. He has progressed from hands-on web solutions engineering—co-creating and maintaining the Easy Edit Suite—to national implementation management and now software engineering, blending client-facing delivery with deep product knowledge. Anthony contributes to open-source accessibility tooling, notably improving HTML_CodeSniffer’s PhantomJS test integrations and robustness, showing attention to maintainability and automated testing. His background in electronic warfare and systems operation in the Royal Australian Navy gives him a disciplined, systems-oriented approach to troubleshooting and reliability that informs his engineering practice.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (4)
accessibility10
javascript10
phantomjs10
testing9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
squizlabs/HTML_CodeSniffer
Aug 2015 - Aug 2022
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.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 164 commits, 44 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Anthony's commits primarily focus on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the `HTML_CodeSniffer` tool, specifically within the context of a PhantomJS environment. They made modifications to the JavaScript code to suppress runtime errors, improve output formatting, and integrate the testing framework. They also corrected script injections within the testing and runner environments. Several commits also involved refactoring and moving code to improve maintainability.
legislationaccessibilitywcag-guidelineshtml-codesniffersection-508
ironikart/sc-trade-profit-client
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:39 commits, 5 PRs, 17 pushes in 25 days
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