DavidĀ Lynch
Senior Software Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation
Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Lynch is a Senior Software Engineer with 19 years of experience building both front-end and back-end systems, currently focusing on the Visual Editor at the Wikimedia Foundation. He brings deep practical knowledge of PHP, Ruby on Rails, and JavaScript from roles at deviantART and ESRI, with a track record of improving core functionality and user-facing tools. An active open-source contributor, he has made notable back-end enhancements to MediaWiki (the platform behind Wikipedia) and implemented rich Git integration and UI features for developer tooling like the Sublime Text Git plugin. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs hands-on coding with pragmatic design decisionsāevident in contributions that span URL handling, search UX tweaks, Unicode compatibility, and browser compatibility fixes. Based in Missouri, he combines long-tenured engineering leadership with a habit of improving documentation and demos, showing attention to both code quality and developer experience.
19 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
San Bernardino Valley College
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Github Skills (28)
git10
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javascript10
jquery10
python10
wikipedia10
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sublime-text-plugin10
post9
regex9
forms9
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kemayo/sublime-text-git
Sep 2011 - Feb 2022
Plugin for some git integration into sublime text
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 1 review, 244 commits in 10 years 6 months
Contributions summary:David contributed significantly to the Sublime Text Git plugin, implementing features such as Git blame, log, diff, and commit functionality. Their work involved refactoring the plugin's core command execution and user interface, ensuring Unicode compatibility, and integrating with git-flow. They also added commands for status, stashing, branching, and file management, demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of Git integration within the Sublime Text environment.
textmatepluginsublimesublime-text-3sublime-text
kemayo/maphilight
Mar 2008 - May 2021
jQuery plugin that adds highlighting to image maps
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 138 commits, 18 PRs in 13 years 5 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on improving the documentation and demos of the jQuery maphilight plugin. They enhanced the existing demo_simple, demo_world and demo_features examples. The contributions included adding width/height attributes to images, updating the documentation with a changelog, and creating a new demo (demo_usa) with styling. They also introduced a new feature ("alwaysOn") and addressed browser compatibility issues, most notably for Internet Explorer.
javascripthighlightingjqueryjquery-plugin
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