David Somers
Engineering Mananger at pixielabs
Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDavid Somers is an engineering manager with 16 years of hands-on software development experience, specialising in Ruby and JavaScript and currently leading teams at Pixie Labs from Milton Keynes. He loves solving hard technical problems end-to-end and building developer-first processes that help engineers grow into confident, productive contributors. A pragmatic tinkerer and teacher, David pairs system design and shipping discipline with a knack for improving developer tooling and testability—evident in his contributions to pixielabs/cavy, a React Native integration test framework. He also has a history of building consumer-facing projects (including a once-popular Twitter web client) and brings a gamer’s focus for iteration and polish to product delivery. Trained with a BEng in Computer Science from the University of York, he balances leadership, mentorship, and active coding.
16 years of coding experience
BEng, Computer Science, Upper second-class honours, BEng, Computer Science, Upper second-class honours at University of York
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Github Skills (17)
react-native10
testing10
react10
integration-testing10
javascript9
automation9
automations9
ios7
android7
ruby-on-rails6
heroku6
metaprogramming6
bson6
jquery6
authentication6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
pixielabs/cavy
Jan 2017 - Oct 2021
An integration test framework for React Native.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 82 commits, 66 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:David's contributions primarily involve the development and testing of a React Native integration test framework. Their commits demonstrate an understanding of React Native components and testing methodologies. They implemented features such as adding sample app and related testing functionalities with modifications to files like 'EmployeeDetails.js' and 'EmployeeListSpec.js'. These changes include adding test hooks and modifying UI for the integration test framework's functionality.
e2e-testsreactreact-nativetestingjavascript
pixielabs/whisper-key
Nov 2013 - Jun 2019
Send & receive secure messages in the browser.
Contributions:15 commits, 11 pushes in 5 years 8 months
securecryptographybrowsersecurityjavascript
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