Edward Buckle
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Winchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolEdward Buckle is a software engineer with eight years of practical experience and a strong academic foundation in Computer Science from the University of Nottingham, where he earned an exceptional achievement award after rapidly learning to code. He progressed from a history degree and a self-funded, math-intensive requalification to industrial placement and full-time roles at IBM and now AWS, demonstrating resilience and a knack for balancing work with rigorous self-study. At IBM he worked across software development roles and contributed to open-source communities, notably enhancing the Foundry VTT Pathfinder Second Edition system with full-stack features for crafting and character-sheet UX. He thrives on applying classroom learning to real projects and is actively seeking industrial placements to broaden applied engineering experience. Colleagues know him for turning user-facing UI needs into clean data structures and pragmatic integrations, and for shipping thoughtful features that improve usability. Based in Winchester, he brings curiosity, rapid learning, and a proven track record of delivering useful software in both corporate and open-source contexts.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Nottingham
Github Skills (14)
foundry10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
f10
char10
character-sheet10
typescript-types10
vtt10
front-end-development9
html9
css8
back-end-development8
backend8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
foundryvtt/pf2e
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
A community contributed game system for Pathfinder Second Edition.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 22 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Edward contributed significantly to the Pathfinder Second Edition (pf2e) Foundry Virtual Tabletop (VTT) system, focusing on implementing and refining the "formula" item type and its associated features. This included the creation of data structures and sheets for formulas, integration into the crafting system, and the addition of a crafting tab to the character sheet. The user also made improvements to the user interface by adding options for hiding character sheet tabs and implementing quick alchemy crafting.
gamepathfinder-second-editionpathfindergame-developmentfoundryvtt
ebuckle/Derring-Do
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:7 releases, 43 commits, 26 PRs in 20 days
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