David Blooman
Senior Software Engineer at Dojo
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDavid Blooman is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years’ experience building cloud-native platforms, developer tooling, and responsive front-end interfaces across startups and large media organisations. He blends hands-on Golang and React development with architecture work—designing serverless and container-based systems that scale to thousands of customers and improving data pipelines in BigQuery on Google Cloud. As a founding engineer at Keel and later lead of Developer Experience at Depop, he delivered production-grade systems like managed GraphQL platforms and Kafka/Kubernetes observability tooling. He also has deep testing and automation roots from a long BBC tenure, contributing to the well-known Wraith visual regression tool and pioneering Go usage there. Based in Stony Stratford, he enjoys solving cross-domain problems that span infrastructure, APIs and responsive UI, and is drawn to high-visibility projects that reach large audiences.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Information Technology Management and Business Information Technology Management and Business, BSc Information Technology Management and Business Information Technology Management and Business at Loughborough UniversityDavenant Foundation School
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Github Skills (5)
responsive-design10
javascript10
web-development9
phantomjs8
css5
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/wraith
Jan 2013 - Dec 2015
Wraith — A responsive screenshot comparison tool
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 371 commits, 35 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on the development and maintenance of the Wraith screenshot comparison tool's user interface. They added features for screenshotting, addressed JavaScript-related issues, and updated the user agent string to reflect the target browser. The user also made changes to the viewport size settings, indicating work on responsive design and cross-browser compatibility. They also updated the UI to be compatible with different screen sizes.
reactscreenshotcomparisonscreenshot-comparisoncomparison-tool
depop/terraform-provider-catalog
Aug 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:9 releases, 1 review, 11 PRs in 2 years 1 month
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