Ashley Lyngsaae-white
Lead Software Engineer at DFDS
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolAshley Lyngsaae-white is a Lead Software Engineer based in Copenhagen with 12 years of experience designing scalable, API-driven systems and cross-platform web software. He focuses on system architecture and data integration, building reusable .NET Core microservices and automating infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible to support high-volume, high-velocity environments. Comfortable across a broad polyglot stack (C#, Go, Python, Java, Node, PHP, JavaScript) and both SQL and NoSQL stores, he blends hands-on implementation with operational thinking to make every deployment and machine count. His open-source contributions range from front-end enhancements to a Bootstrap lightbox to core backend features for the php-webdriver client, reflecting both UI sensibility and deep automation/testing expertise. Notably, his freelance work produced a viral ASOS Australia Twitter game that reached millions in hours, showing an ability to design for scale and rapid user adoption.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Networking and Web Development, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Networking and Web Development at Solent UniversityMaster of Science (MSc) Software Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) Software Engineering at IT-Universitetet i København
English, Danish
Github Skills (12)
html10
php10
javascript10
bootstra10
selenium-ide10
webdriver10
event-handling10
bootstrap10
selenium10
jquery9
css9
unit-testing3
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ashleydw/lightbox
Aug 2013 - Aug 2018
A lightbox gallery plugin for Bootstrap
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 191 commits, 39 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Ashley's contributions primarily focused on front-end development, implementing features for a Bootstrap-based lightbox gallery. They added an example HTML page using the Bootstrap 3 RC2 and then updated the dependencies to Bootstrap 3.0.0 and 3.0.2, and finally, added a fix for width issues in IE11. The user implemented and modified example pages to demonstrate the features of the lightbox, including gallery navigation and responsiveness.
gallery-pluginlightbox-gallery-plugingallerybootstraplightbox
php-webdriver/php-webdriver
Aug 2013 - Sep 2013
PHP client for Selenium/WebDriver protocol. Previously facebook/php-webdriver
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ashley implemented core features for event handling and navigation within the PHP client for Selenium/WebDriver. They introduced classes for EventFiringWebDriver and EventFiringWebElement, which allow for the interception and handling of events during WebDriver interactions. Additionally, the user added functionalities related to navigation events and touch screen interactions, enhancing the client's capabilities for interacting with web elements and managing browser behavior. The user also made adjustments to support PHP versions before 5.4.
php-clientphpphp-webdriverw3c-webdrivergeckodriver
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