David Grigg
Software Engineer at Rightword Enterprises
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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RockstarDavid Grigg is a Melbourne-based software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience and a knack for resilient back-end tooling. He contributed significant refactors to the well-regarded Standard Ebooks toolset, making table-of-contents generation and endnote handling far more robust across tricky cases like single-file volumes and embedded tags. Now retired from professional development, he channels his analytical mindset into writing fiction and designing books, blending technical rigor with creative practice. Practical, detail-oriented, and comfortable navigating both legacy edge cases and publishing workflows, he brings a rare combination of engineering discipline and editorial sensitivity.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
epub10
beautifulsoup10
python10
ebooklib9
xml9
docbook9
regex8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
standardebooks/tools
Feb 2018 - May 2022
The Standard Ebooks toolset for producing our ebook files.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 81 commits, 39 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:David primarily worked on refactoring and enhancing the table of contents (ToC) generation tool for the Standard Ebooks project. Their commits involved modifying the ToC creation process to be more robust, including adapting the code to handle various edge cases such as single-file volumes and handling of embedded tags within titles and subtitles. The user also updated the endnotes function and introduced features for better identification of fiction/non-fiction within the project.
ebookebookspythonebook-filesepub
drgrigg/samuel-richardson_clarissa-harlowe
Feb 2018 - Feb 2021
The source code for the Standard Ebooks edition of Clarissa Harlowe by Samuel Richardson
Contributions:1 PR, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
harloweebooksthe-standard
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