Conor Cussell
Senior Engineering Lead at Wise
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolConor Cussell is a product-minded Senior Engineering Lead based in London with 11 years of experience building secure, user-focused web platforms across regulated FinTech and HealthTech firms. Currently leading engineering at Wise after progressing from frontend developer to engineering lead, he combines hands-on frontend craftsmanship with leadership in authentication and security domains. His background spans startups, consultancies and in-house teams, shipping complex web products at companies like Babylon Health and Wise. An active contributor to the Slate rich-text editor, he’s improved selection handling and removed heavy dependencies to optimize real-world editor UX. With a History degree from the University of Leeds, he brings a curious, user-centric perspective to technical problem solving and product strategy.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
History, History at University of Leeds
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Github Skills (20)
application-framework10
editors10
javascript10
rich-text10
text-editor10
app-framework10
browser10
editor10
slate10
web-framework10
react10
html9
preact6
android6
html-email6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ianstormtaylor/slate
Mar 2017 - Feb 2018
A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors. (Currently in beta.)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 14 PRs, 6 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Conor primarily contributed to the Slate rich-text editor framework, focusing on improvements and bug fixes related to the user interface and functionality. They implemented features such as an example plugin using `plugin.render`, and also addressed issues like deserializing empty documents within the HTML serializer. Moreover, the user resolved problems related to text selection, including handling shift-key selections and addressing zero-width whitespace characters, enhancing the editor's overall user experience. Furthermore, they removed dependencies such as parse5, contributing to the project's optimization.
rich-textrichtextbrowserjavascriptrte
conorcussell/wisdom
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes in 1 month
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