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United Kingdom
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Top SchoolF is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building robust back-end systems and improving test automation across open-source projects. Their contributions span high-impact repositories like OpenSSL (cryptographic prime generation), Replicate (Node.js client for async ML predictions) and Cog (ML container orchestration), demonstrating expertise in performance optimization, async workflows, and distributed queues. They’ve also enhanced developer tooling and editor reliability through testing and build fixes in Lime, and implemented game and server logic as a full-stack contributor to netrunner. With a strong mathematical physics background (MSci First Class) and time in a quantum gravity PhD program, they bring rigorous analytical thinking to practical engineering problems. Outside code, their GitHub profile signals a principled, intersectional perspective that informs thoughtful, accessible contributions.
12 years of coding experience
Secondary (GCSEs) and Further (A-Levels) Education, Secondary (GCSEs) and Further (A-Levels) Education at Latymer Upper SchoolMaster in Science with Honours (MSci - Hons), Mathematical Physics, First Class, Master in Science with Honours (MSci - Hons), Mathematical Physics, First Class at University of NottinghamDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Voluntarily Withdrawn, Quantum Gravity, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Voluntarily Withdrawn, Quantum Gravity at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
German, English
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Github Skills (54)
asynchronous10
javascript10
container10
apidoc10
redis10
clojure-cli10
async10
python10
back-end-development10
testing10
c1110
clojure10
c1710
go10
api10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
limetext/lime
Aug 2014 - Feb 2017
Open source API-compatible alternative to the text editor Sublime Text
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:251 commits, 22 PRs, 37 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:F primarily focused on improving the testing framework and adding tests to the `lime` repository. Their contributions included fixing shellcheck warnings within the build scripts, adding tests for core editor functionalities like window closing, setting the frontend, and clipboard operations, and refactoring tests for better organization. They also introduced new commands, such as the "new_file" command, and added tests for these new commands, which helped increase code coverage and ensure the stability of the text editor.
golangapisublimeeditortext-editor
replicate/replicate-javascript
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Node.js client for Replicate
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 16 reviews, 37 commits in 24 days
Contributions summary:F implemented methods for interacting with the Replicate API, specifically focusing on running and retrieving predictions. They added functionality to create predictions, poll for their status until completion, and cancel them. These changes involved interactions with the Replicate API's endpoints and included the development of a polling mechanism to handle asynchronous prediction results. The user also refactored the code, splitting it into single-object files and adding error handling.
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