Edward Neal
Senior Software Development Manager & Front-end Lead at Pond5
Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolEdward Neal is a Senior Software Development Manager and Front-end Lead based in Prague with six years of focused experience leading front-end teams at Pond5. He combines product-minded UI leadership with hands-on engineering, having risen from frontend developer to manage and shape the front-end architecture since 2015. Edward pairs strong web-stack roots (HTML5/CSS3/JS, PHP, SQL) with contributions to high-profile open-source work in the .NET runtime, where he improved file/archiving robustness—an uncommon backend strength for a front-end lead. Known for pragmatic delivery and cross-functional collaboration, he brings design-aware engineering from his Web Design and Development diploma and a background in culture and media studies that helps translate user needs into polished interfaces.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Diploma, Web Design and Development, Distinction, Professional Diploma, Web Design and Development, Distinction at Prague CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Culture and Media Studies with Film Studies, 2:1, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Culture and Media Studies with Film Studies, 2:1 at University of the West of England
French
Github Skills (12)
net10
asp-net10
compression10
filesystem10
dotnet10
data-serialization10
csharp10
file-operations10
fileio10
dotnet-core10
serialization10
testing9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/runtime
Jan 2020 - Apr 2025
.NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:105 reviews, 15 PRs, 194 comments in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Edward primarily contributed to the .NET runtime, making modifications to core libraries and tests. Their work involved adding support for new file options related to backup semantics and implementing tests for the BerConverter. The user also addressed issues related to ZipArchiveEntry and Zip64ExtraField handling, enhancing the stability and functionality of archive operations. These changes demonstrate expertise in file system operations, data serialization, and compression technologies within the .NET ecosystem.
dotnetruntimelinuxcsharpxamarin
edwardneal/StatusPageClient
Oct 2019 - Sep 2024
API allowing applications to read from statuspage.io's public-facing API
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 4 years 11 months
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