Carl Saggs
Chief Technology Officer at Treble Peak
Canterbury, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolCarl Saggs is a hands-on Chief Technology Officer with 14 years of experience building full-stack web platforms and leading engineering teams, currently steering technology at CoInvestor and Treble Peak. He combines deep front-end UX improvements (notably contributions to the popular Reddit Enhancement Suite) with backend expertise in PHP/Lumen routing and robust tooling across AWS, CI, and testing pipelines. A pragmatist who prefers simple, effective solutions, he’s delivered major performance wins and standardised stacks at the University of Kent while scaling product engineering for fintech. Scrum- and ITIL-certified, Carl blends strategic leadership with active open-source involvement and a knack for improving developer workflows and media-rich user experiences.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computing Philosophy Film Studies, Computing Philosophy Film Studies at Colchester Sixth Form CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Kent
Stackoverflow
1,816reputation
129kreached
64answers
3questions
javascript
top-5%
jquery
top-5%
Github Skills (26)
url-routing10
javascript10
laravel-mix10
testing10
user-interface10
laravel10
media-playback10
php10
video-player10
playback10
html10
videojs10
application-framework9
jquery9
ui-design9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
honestbleeps/Reddit-Enhancement-Suite
Jan 2014 - Jun 2021
Reddit Enhancement Suite
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:180 commits, 34 PRs, 77 comments in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Carl primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and expanding functionality of the Reddit Enhancement Suite, specifically related to HTML5 video support. Their contributions included enabling drag resizing for HTML5 videos, ensuring click actions register on video controls, removing duplicated functionality, adding support for inline image viewers on wiki pages, and integrating support for various media hosts (YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, etc.). The user also added options to configure and control inline video playback, reflecting a focus on improving the user experience with rich media content.
redditchrome-extensionfirefox-addonfirefox-extensionedge-extension
laravel/lumen-framework
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
The Laravel Lumen Framework.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Carl primarily focused on enhancing the routing functionality of the Lumen framework. Their contributions involved implementing features like route suffixes, allowing developers to specify file extensions in routes. They added tests to validate the suffix implementation and also fixed styling issues. The work focused on refining the routing behavior, making it more flexible and adaptable.
laravellumen-frameworklumenframework
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.