Edd Turtle
Lead Software Developer at Designed by a Turtle
Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolEdd Turtle is a Lead Software Developer with 14 years’ experience building scalable web applications from the ground up, currently leading a team at Hoowla where he manages agile delivery, continuous deployment, and integrations with major UK property services. He primarily works in PHP (with Go and Python) and modern front-ends (jQuery, Vue.js), and has a long-standing commitment to open source—contributing core fixes and tests to dompdf, a widely used HTML-to-PDF PHP library. A Swansea Metropolitan (University of Wales) software engineering graduate, Edd pairs hands-on engineering with mentorship, regularly working with university students and speaking about startup engineering. Practical and pragmatic, he prioritises immutable infrastructure, testing, and twelve-factor principles to keep products reliable while shipping on time.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ysgol Gyfun PantycelynBachelor of Science (BSc), Software Engineering, Second Class Hons. Upper Division (2:1), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Software Engineering, Second Class Hons. Upper Division (2:1) at University of Wales Trinity Saint David
English, Welsh
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
css10
php10
testing9
fonts8
responsive-design6
html6
ajax6
internet-explorer6
browser6
javascript6
forms6
jquery6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dompdf/dompdf
Jan 2014 - Aug 2020
HTML to PDF converter for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 5 comments in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Edd contributed to the core functionality of the dompdf library, focusing on improving the conversion of HTML to PDF. Their work included fixing bugs related to table margins, and updating the encoding detection for better character support. The user also refactored the code to make width measurements case-insensitive and added tests to ensure the correct calculations of length units. These commits demonstrate an understanding of the core logic for HTML parsing, CSS rendering, and PDF generation within dompdf.
pdfcssphpdompdffont
eddturtle/direct-upload
Feb 2016 - Apr 2021
Composer Package to Direct Upload to S3
Contributions:7 releases, 95 commits, 12 PRs in 5 years 3 months
file-uploaddirect-uploadsignsignature-padsignature
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