Graham Tackley
Software Engineer at Brave Software
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGraham Tackley is a seasoned software engineer and hands-on technology leader with 21 years of experience building scalable products across frontend, backend, cloud and data systems. He’s led architecture and data technology transformations at The Guardian, co-founded a data-driven startup (Kaleida Networks) and now shapes platform integrity and product engineering at Brave. Comfortable across languages and stacks—from Scala and TypeScript to Kotlin and TensorFlow—he excels at empowering small, autonomous teams to deliver high-impact outcomes quickly. His work includes productionising real-time analytics (Ophan), building the Guardian Content API, and contributing stability and source-control improvements to notable open-source projects like CruiseControl.NET. A pragmatic advocate for outcome-focused engineering, he combines deep technical craft with product empathy and a bias for demonstrable prototypes that change how organisations work. Based in London, he often prefers solving messy real-world problems by building small, effective teams and proving ideas in production.
21 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computing and Information Systems, BSc Computing and Information Systems at The University of Manchester
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Github Skills (8)
csharp10
dotnet-core10
netframework10
testing9
automations8
automation8
perforce7
continuous-integration6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ccnet/CruiseControl.NET
Mar 2005 - May 2006
CruiseControl.NET is an Automated Continuous Integration server, implemented using the .NET Framework. Downloads at sourceforge. The documentation can be found at:
Role in this project:
Back-end & Automation Engineer
Back-end & Automation EngineerContributions:59 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Graham primarily focused on improving the stability and functionality of the CruiseControl.NET project. They addressed issues with file source control providers, corrected test logic to remove reliance on volatile date/time functions, and enhanced the ClearCase source control plugin by adding branch specification support and source retrieval capabilities. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the integration process, ensuring the correct build status and related functionality during get-source operations and temporary labelling, and made updates to the X10 controller functionality.
dotnetintegration-serversourceforgenet-frameworkcontinuous
tackley/taf-nav
Jul 2021 - Jun 2023
For Z - navigation around the realm
Contributions:3 reviews, 24 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 11 months
realmnavigation
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