Ciaran Liedeman
Director at Stackworx
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolCiaran Liedeman is a director and hands-on software engineer with 11 years’ experience building web and rich internet applications, blending Java backend expertise with a strong preference for dynamic languages like JavaScript and Python. He champions Agile practices and test-driven development, and has recently focused on domain-driven design and JVM-hosted dynamic languages. Comfortable across the full stack, he has worked with frameworks from Spring and Hibernate to ExtJS and React, and uses Linux daily. An active open-source contributor, he has improved database robustness in the ent Go framework and added UI components and type-safety fixes to Formik-MUI, showing attention to data-layer stability and front-end ergonomics. Based in Gauteng, South Africa, he pairs academic training in computer science with practical production experience and a pragmatic curiosity for new language runtimes.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Hons, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Hons, Computer Science at University of Stellenbosch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (42)
ent10
formik10
database-api10
component-development10
databases10
typescript10
material-ui10
wpgraphql10
go10
orm10
sql10
wordpress-graphql10
typescript-types10
graphql10
error-handling10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
stackworx/formik-mui
Feb 2018 - Jun 2022
Bindings for using Formik with Material-UI
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 releases, 17 reviews, 213 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ciaran primarily contributed to the development of UI components and the integration of the Formik library with Material-UI. Their work included adding and fixing Flow types, which suggests an emphasis on code quality and maintainability. The user also added new components, such as Switch and Checkbox, and created examples with stories, demonstrating a focus on component development and documentation within a React environment. Further work included integration of a simple file upload component and improvements to existing components like the TextField, highlighting an active role in expanding and refining the component library.
material-uireactformik
ent/contrib
May 2021 - Jul 2021
A collection of extensions and tools for ent
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 7 commits, 11 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ciaran primarily contributed to the `ent/contrib` repository, which contains extensions and tools for ent. Their contributions focused on enhancing the `entgql` package. This involved fixing annotation-related issues and addressing template validation concerns for the `OrderField` annotation. They also added functionality to allow excluding nodes from gql generation and exported template functions.
entextensions
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