Ayush Newatia
Director & Lead Web Developer at Radioactive Toy
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAyush Newatia is a London-based Director and Lead Web Developer with 11 years of experience building web and mobile products, specialising in Ruby on Rails and full-stack web development. He runs Radioactive Toy, a one-person studio and SaaS (Scattergun), combining hands-on engineering with product ownership and client delivery. Previously he contributed mobile and build automation expertise at AKQA and TransferWise, redesigning iOS build pipelines and supporting cross-platform projects for major clients. An active open-source contributor, he made notable enhancements to the Bridgetown static site framework—improving CLI commands, PostCSS handling, testing and deployment presets, and YAML handling. Comfortable shipping everything from static sites to production Rails apps, he blends pragmatic engineering with a knack for improving developer workflows.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
ICSE General, ICSE General at Campion SchoolHSC Science, HSC Science at Jai Hindu jobsBSc. (Hons) Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), BSc. (Hons) Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at Brunel University, Uxbridge, MiddlesexFirst Year Information Systems and Computing, First Year Information Systems and Computing at LIBT at Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex
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Github Skills (30)
static-site-generator10
command-line-interface10
postcss10
webpack10
ruby10
webpacker10
command-line10
yaml10
minitest10
cli10
github-ci9
javascript9
cicd9
esbuild9
devops9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bridgetownrb/bridgetown
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
A next-generation progressive site generator & fullstack framework, powered by Ruby
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:29 reviews, 44 commits, 85 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ayush significantly contributed to the Bridgetown project, focusing on the "new" command and related configurations. They implemented features like PostCSS configuration options and modules resolve paths, modifying core files and site templates. They also added bundled configurations for Cypress, Render, and GH Pages, improving testing, deployment, and workflow capabilities. Furthermore, they refactored to use Psych instead of the SafeYAML gem.
bridgetowncmsnext-generationfullstack-frameworkesbuild
ayushn21/actiontext-syntax-highlighter
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Extends ActionText to support code blocks highlighted with Rouge
Contributions:5 releases, 81 commits, 31 PRs in 1 year 7 months
highlightcode-blocksrailshighlightedactiontext
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