Dayle Rees
Tech Lead at Utility Warehouse
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDayle Rees is a Tech Lead based in Cardiff with 15 years of experience architecting extensible web applications, building developer tooling, and scaling engineering teams. He blends hands-on backend expertise in PHP (longtime Laravel contributor and author of three popular Laravel books) with modern infrastructure skills in Kubernetes, event-sourcing (Kafka), Go, React and GraphQL. Dayle excels at creating automated build and release pipelines—evident from his work automating JetBrains theme packaging—and improving developer experience through refactors, testing (TDD/BDD) and workflow automation. A seasoned people manager, he has led engineering functions at Utility Warehouse, Crowdcube and JustPark, hiring and growing high-performing teams while driving technical strategy. He also brings an eye for design and editor theming, personally shipping cross-platform colour schemes used by thousands of developers.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Computer Science at Aberystwyth University
English, Welsh, German
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Github Skills (34)
application-framework10
docker10
intellij10
scripting10
laravel-mix10
app-framework10
configuration-management10
bash10
laravel10
dockers10
color-scheme10
vim10
eloquent-orm10
php10
script10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
rainglow/jetbrains
Dec 2017 - Nov 2018
320+ color themes for JetBrains IDEs including PHPStorm, Webstorm and more.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Dayle focused on automating the build and packaging process for the JetBrains color themes plugin. Their work primarily involved modifying the `build.sh` script to integrate Docker for theme building and updating the packaging process. They also made changes to the `rainglow.jar` file, likely related to incorporating new themes, versions, and fixing release issues. The user appears responsible for maintaining and improving the automated build pipeline.
jetbrains-idesphpstormwebstorm
daylerees/colour-schemes
Jun 2012 - Nov 2017
Colour schemes for a variety of editors created by Dayle Rees.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:160 commits, 17 PRs, 7 pushes in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Dayle's contributions primarily involve modifying and updating color schemes for various editors, specifically focusing on Vim and IntelliJ. These changes involved directly editing configuration files, suggesting a focus on UI customization and theming. Additionally, the user introduced an IntelliJ generation process indicating an expansion of the theme support to multiple platforms.
colourschemesvarietyeditorscolour-schemes
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