David Baldwin
Co-Founder at BK Plus
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Baldwin is a seasoned co-founder and former owner with nearly two decades of experience building and running accountancy and advisory businesses for clients ranging from sole traders to corporations with £70m+ turnover. He blends hands-on corporate finance and specialist tax expertise with a passion for client-first service, delivering big-firm specialism through a single point of contact. A former youngest director at Baldwins and an ACCA fellow, he has led multiple practice acquisitions and scaled regional operations to over 550 employees and 26 offices. More recently he co-founded BK Plus to refocus on SME support and funding access in challenging times, while also contributing technical improvements to open-source Ruby/Rails tooling such as the widely used bootstrap_form gem. Practical, growth-oriented and client-centric, he pairs entrepreneurial instinct with deep operational experience.
18 years of coding experience
Arthur Terry Comprehensive School
Github Skills (8)
form-builder10
ruby-rails10
rails10
bootstra10
bootstrap10
ruby10
html9
css8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bootstrap-ruby/bootstrap_form
Feb 2014 - Mar 2014
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 27 days
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the `bootstrap_form` gem, a Rails form builder. They focused on enhancing the form builder's flexibility by allowing custom widths for input fields and labels within horizontal forms. The user also addressed styling for date/time selects and introduced functionality to support custom form group layouts, demonstrating a focus on improving the form builder's customization capabilities and layout options. Further improvements included mimicking form tag behavior and adding an errors_on helper.
bootstrap4form-builderrailsrubybootstrap-5
baldwindavid/basic_haml_generators
Aug 2008 - Nov 2009
Contributions:6 commits in 1 year 2 months
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