Ed Sanders
Principal Software Engineer, Editing Team Lead at Wikimedia Foundation
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEd Sanders is a Principal Software Engineer and Editing Team Lead at the Wikimedia Foundation with 13 years of experience building web products and leading engineering teams. A Cambridge-educated mathematician and computer scientist, he blends rigorous technical judgement with hands-on front-end expertise—evident in contributions to the widely used jquery.ime input methods library where he improved tests, fixed bugs, and added features for multilingual input. He has a strong background in UX and web development from roles at TripAdvisor, Zopa and freelance work for major brands, which informs his focus on usable, internationalized editing interfaces. Known for balancing architecture and delivery, he coaches teams to ship maintainable code at scale while remaining active in open source.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Mathematics and Computer Science, MA, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Cambridge
English, French, Chinese, Welsh
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
javascript10
front-end-development10
jquery10
testing10
sorting9
collation9
user-interface9
diacritics9
pushpin6
adsense6
api6
bing-maps6
parsoid6
regex6
unicode6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/jquery.ime
Mar 2018 - Jul 2020
jQuery based input methods library
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 14 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ed primarily contributed to the `jquery.ime` library by updating the test suite, fixing bugs, and refactoring existing code. Their commits include changes to the test files, updating dependencies, and modifying the selector functionality for input methods. They also added features such as the `selectorInside` option to position the IME selector. The user demonstrated skills in JavaScript and jQuery.
javascriptjquery
Tchanders/countdan
Jan 2015 - Jan 2022
Contributions:12 PRs, 10 pushes, 12 branches in 7 years 1 month
games
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