Fell Sunderland
Backend Chapter Lead at Cleo
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarFell Sunderland is a pragmatic engineering leader and polyglot full-stack developer with 12 years’ experience, currently serving as Backend Chapter Lead at Cleo. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Ruby/Rails, Clojure, and JavaScript while also operating comfortably with Kubernetes, serverless patterns and microservices to deliver resilient back-end systems. Known for combining technical craft with empathetic leadership, he prioritises psychological safety and trust to help teams consistently ship high-quality software. An active open-source contributor, Fell has improved core usability in popular developer tooling like the thoughtbot/gitsh interactive git shell, reflecting his attention to developer experience. He balances strategic architecture work at scale with day-to-day coding, mentoring and practical improvements that reduce friction across the stack.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
rspec10
git10
ruby10
scripting9
shell9
script9
parser9
sh9
command-line-interface8
command-line8
cli8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
thoughtbot/gitsh
Feb 2014 - May 2014
An interactive shell for git
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Fell primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and robustness of the `gitsh` interactive shell. They implemented features such as handling empty string arguments, parsing upper and lower case letters, and completing remotes. Additionally, the user addressed usability by preventing parse errors from blank lines and improving completion of paths starting with "~". Their contributions refined the core features and improved the user experience.
clibashterminalshellzsh
AgentAntelope/dotfiles
Mar 2015 - Jul 2024
Dotfiles are important.
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 5 months
vimasdfdotfilesimportantzsh
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