George Crawford
Principal Engineer at Financial Times
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGeorge Crawford is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of software experience, currently shaping customer-facing products at the Financial Times. He combines deep full‑stack and cloud-native expertise—from Svelte front-ends and GraphQL APIs to Kubernetes, Terraform and BigQuery—with hands-on leadership at startups and enterprise newsrooms. Trusted as the senior technologist at Just3Things and technical lead on projects for The Economist and FT, he pairs pragmatic engineering with product strategy and team coaching. An early open-source contributor to performance-focused libraries (e.g., fastdom) and creator of FTColumnflow, he brings a performance and UX sensibility honed on ambitious offline-first newsroom apps. A former professional baroque violinist, he leverages performance discipline, empathy and clear communication cultivated on international stages to mentor teams and steward technical vision. Based in Bristol, he is known for pragmatic problem-solving, attention to detail, and a collaborative, kind leadership style.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music MusB (Hons) Music, Bachelor of Music MusB (Hons) Music at The University of ManchesterThe Latymer School, EdmontonGraduate Diploma Violin, Graduate Diploma Violin at Royal Northern College of Music
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
html10
javascript10
front-end-development10
css9
caching6
fonts6
php6
hyperlink6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
wilsonpage/fastdom
Oct 2013 - Oct 2013
Eliminates layout thrashing by batching DOM measurement and mutation tasks
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:George primarily contributed to the front-end of the `fastdom` repository, as demonstrated by their changes to the animation example and the addition of an introductory paragraph for it. Their work involved modifying HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code to enhance the animation example and improve its presentation. The user also made minor improvements to the code and layout of the aspect-ratio example.
mutationbatchinglayoutmeasurementdom
Financial-Times/next-search-api
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:65 PRs, 90 pushes, 58 branches in 22 days
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