Cahil Foley
Lead Developer Integrated System Modelling
Perth, Western Australia
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Top SchoolCahil Foley is a Lead Developer with a decade of experience building full-stack simulation and analytics platforms, currently heading Integrated System Modelling at Rio Tinto in Perth. He combines hands-on TypeScript engineering with team leadership, having coordinated agile delivery for a suite of internal applications used by thousands of employees. Cahil has a strong backend and database pedigree—contributing to the widely used node-mssql client and improving TypeScript type definitions in DefinitelyTyped to tighten correctness around SQL metadata. He is comfortable across the stack from test-driven database work to large-scale web app delivery, and he brings practical operational experience from secure, air-gapped environments. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex domain requirements into reliable, auditable software systems that scale across enterprise operations.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) - Partial, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) - Partial, Computer Science at Edith Cowan UniversityDiploma, Business, Diploma, Business at Central Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
type-definition10
sql10
mssql10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
testing9
databases9
database9
tds7
html6
semantic-ui6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tediousjs/node-mssql
Nov 2019 - Apr 2020
Microsoft SQL Server client for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Cahil focused on enhancing the `node-mssql` library, a Microsoft SQL Server client for Node.js, by adding features related to column metadata handling. Their contributions include adding logic to preserve and utilize identity and readOnly properties from recordsets when converting them into table objects. They also implemented tests to verify the correct handling of column information, including testing with existing tables. Further, they updated test scripts to prepare the database with a test table and incorporate checks related to identity and readOnly columns, ensuring data integrity.
sql-servertdsmicrosoft-sql-serverclient-serverjavascript
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
May 2019 - May 2021
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Cahil primarily contributed to enhancing the type definitions within the `mssql` module for the `definitelytyped` repository. They focused on aligning the type definitions with documentation, adding missing properties to the `IColumnMetadata` interface, and updating method signatures for `Request` and `Table` interfaces. Furthermore, the user improved the type safety by adding a `beforeConnect` type to the config. Additionally, the user added an alias function signature to the core refractor.d.ts.
typescript-definitionstype-definitionshigh-qualitydtsdefinitions
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