Anthony Whitford
Head Of Software at MHR
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAnthony Whitford is a seasoned technology leader and Head of Software with 15 years of experience delivering cloud-native SaaS platforms and transforming engineering organisations across the UK education and library sectors. He combines hands-on development chops with strategic leadership—having driven product, architecture and delivery for large services like Reading Cloud, UNIT-e and Library Management Cloud while reducing operational costs and stabilising live services. Anthony is pragmatic about data-driven improvements, exemplified by rapid platform performance gains using AppInsights and PowerBI, and has led technical due diligence for acquisitions. An active open-source contributor, he improves both front-end UX and back-end maintainability in projects ranging from Flutter UI kits to OWASP DependencyCheck. He brings deep domain expertise in library integrations (BIC/LCF) alongside a developer’s attention to code quality and security. Based in England with a BSc in Software Engineering, he still writes and refactors code while running engineering at scale.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc hons Software Engineering, BSc hons Software Engineering at University of Birmingham
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Github Skills (43)
dependency-management10
web-widgets10
hugo10
bootstrap10
widgets10
animation10
flutter-apps10
css10
software-composition-analysis10
ui-design10
java10
javas10
uid10
front-end-development10
form-validation10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
aagarwal1012/Animated-Text-Kit
May 2020 - Apr 2021
🔔 A flutter package to create cool and beautiful text animations. [Flutter Favorite Package]
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:50 reviews, 80 commits, 75 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily focused on refactoring and optimizing the code base for the Flutter animated text kit package. The contributions include removing obsolete keywords, adding type hints, adding `final` and `const` keywords, and replacing `null` guards with concise operators. They also optimized the code for `AnimatedBuilder`, ensured timer cancellation and corrected alignment logic. Additionally, the user added support for emoji characters, reworked example code, and deprecated legacy Kit classes.
flutter-favoriteflutter-packageanimationtext-animationdart
dependency-check/DependencyCheck
Sep 2015 - Sep 2016
OWASP dependency-check is a software composition analysis utility that detects publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in application dependencies.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:142 commits, 65 PRs, 32 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily focused on improving the codebase's maintainability and efficiency. Their contributions include removing deprecated code, adding time measurements for key steps within the analysis process, and removing Checkstyle and PMD violations. They also upgraded dependencies, specifically commons-lang and commons-cli, and addressed potential resource leaks and code inefficiencies.
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