Dwayne Bailey
Greater Guildford Area, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarDwayne Bailey is a localisation specialist with 21 years' experience focused on enabling Free and Open Source Software to reach global audiences. He advises organisations and suppliers on localisation processes, internationalisation, and integrating software solutions into existing workflows to make translation practical and scalable. Dwayne also counsels companies on Open Source strategy, helping both adopters and product vendors navigate migration and strategic use of open ecosystems. An active contributor to the translate/translate project, he has improved Unicode handling, multi-line comment support, and coding standards to strengthen tooling used by the localisation community. Based in the Greater Guildford area, he blends hands-on software development with practical process design to drive measurable localisation outcomes.
21 years of coding experience
Afrikaans, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
enforcement10
internationalization10
localization10
coding-style10
python10
macos6
virtualenv6
restructuredtext5
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
translate/translate
Aug 2006 - Jun 2017
Useful localization tools with Python API for building localization & translation systems
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:2147 commits, 106 PRs, 211 pushes in 11 years
Contributions summary:Dwayne's commits primarily focus on standardizing and improving the translation process within the "translate/translate" repository, which includes useful localization tools with a Python API. The contributions are centered around enforcing coding standards, especially in relation to PEP8, by removing unnecessary whitespace and ensuring imports adhere to best practices. Furthermore, the user also added and maintained the inclusion of support for multi-line comments and Unicode handling, thus enhancing the quality and integrity of the translated resources.
l10napipythontranslationinternationalization
translate/mozilla-com
Oct 2010 - Aug 2012
Contributions:17 commits in 1 year 10 months
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