Barnaby Keene
Lead Software Engineer at Storyden
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBarnaby Keene is a London-based Lead Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building full-stack web services, developer tooling, and creative products. He blends design and storytelling sensibilities with pragmatic engineering—founding creative studios and an open-source AI content platform (Storyden) while leading production teams at companies like Ferry and Odin. A prolific open-source contributor (notably to the open.mp web monorepo and the popular goreleaser project), he has shipped front-end features, back-end APIs, and release automation improvements that prevented silent failures. Comfortable from UX to CI, he pairs entrepreneurial grit and investor insight with hands-on coding, and he’s known in developer circles as “southclaws.”
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Nottingham Trent UniversityConfetti ICT
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Github Skills (32)
javascript10
apidoc10
user-interface10
nextjs10
go10
api10
golang10
release-automation10
githubaction-workflow10
react10
css9
html9
typescripts8
docker8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
openmultiplayer/web
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
The open.mp web services monorepo. Homepage, documentation, server index, and more! All in one place.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:240 reviews, 1185 commits, 402 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Barnaby focused on developing the front-end user interface and back-end API functionality for the open.mp web services monorepo. Their contributions included implementing new features for the wiki, such as category pages, tag pages, and full-text search. They also made improvements to the website's layout, added language selection, and implemented an account-linking and profile page with admin capabilities.
placemonorepoindexall-in-oneats
goreleaser/goreleaser
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
Release engineering, simplified
Role in this project:Back-end & Automation Engineer
Back-end & Automation EngineerContributions:16 commits, 8 PRs, 18 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Barnaby contributed to the `goreleaser/goreleaser` project by refactoring and extending functionality related to the `CreateFile` function within the GitHub client, enabling more generic use cases. They implemented unit tests for Scoop manifests and enhanced the Scoop integration by adding manifest generation support. Additionally, the user addressed branching logic in the GitHub client to prevent silent failures.
golangrpmsnapcraftapkdocker
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