Carl Gorringe
Software Development & Consulting at carl.gorringe.org
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarl Gorringe is a pragmatic software developer and consultant based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over 13 years of professional experience and more than 20 years writing software across native iOS (Swift/Obj-C), web extensions, backend services, and Flutter. He has led mobile projects for organizations from the Internet Archive—where he redesigned the widely used Wayback Machine browser extensions—to Digital Domain and Bosch, shipping high-profile apps including Olympic content and VR streaming. Comfortable as a technical cofounder, he pairs product-level business assessment skills with hands-on engineering, mentoring junior devs and delivering polished UI/UX and performance improvements. His open-source contributions include substantial UX and dark-mode work on the Wayback Machine extension (200K+ Chrome installs), and he has a history of turning research prototypes into production-ready solutions for decentralised web and archival access. Outside of product work he volunteers running a local makerspace and tech meetup and serves as a Library Commissioner, reflecting a long-term commitment to community tech education and civic engagement.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (12)
html10
css10
ux-design10
opera-extension10
javascript10
webextension10
user-interface10
user-experience10
front-end-development10
chrome-extension10
browser-extension10
web-development9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
internetarchive/wayback-machine-webextension
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
A web browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari 14.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 41 reviews, 244 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Carl primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the Wayback Machine browser extension. Their contributions included updating the main UI to align with the Safari extension design, integrating dark mode support, refactoring the popup UI, and improving settings and login views. The user also implemented features for managing excluded URLs, integrating social share links, and fixing bugs.
safarifirefoxbrowseredgechrome
cgorringe/ft-demos
Apr 2016 - Oct 2022
Demos for the Noisebridge Flaschen Taschen project
Contributions:101 commits, 7 PRs, 85 pushes in 6 years 6 months
pythonmusic-compositionsynthesizerperlin-noiseflask
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