Greg Brown
Senior Software Engineer at Aha!
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Top SchoolGreg Brown is a senior software engineer and technical leader with 16 years of web and SaaS experience, currently driving product development at Aha! from Christchurch, NZ. He combines hands-on architecture and full-stack delivery with empathetic people leadership, having built and led platform and SDK teams as Head of Engineering at Atomic.io. Greg is skilled at turning ambiguous product requirements into clearly documented solutions, then breaking them into actionable work—an approach refined through remote leadership and extensive writing. His background spans award-winning agency work, rebuilding a browser rendering engine, and architecting a cloud content platform that handled thousands of actions per second. An active open-source contributor, he’s fixed tricky image-processing bugs in the popular sorl-thumbnail project, demonstrating attention to robustness across the stack.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Canterbury
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Github Skills (20)
python10
image-processing10
django10
thumb10
django-admin10
thumbnails10
javascript9
jquery9
django-models9
sorting9
django-views9
dom-traversal6
zsh6
django-templates6
distutils6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/sorl-thumbnail
Aug 2012 - Nov 2016
Thumbnails for Django
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily focused on improving image processing and thumbnail generation within the Django-based sorl-thumbnail library. They addressed bugs related to CMYK image handling, corrected deprecated URL imports, and fixed issues with blank and broken image files. Additionally, the user made changes to ensure thumbnails fit within the specified geometry, even when upscaling wasn't enabled, and modified the cropping behavior. These changes involved modifications to the core engine, template tags, and configuration files.
djangothumbnails
gregplaysguitar/lasttweet
May 2017 - Oct 2019
Flask app which fetches a user's last tweet as json data from the twitter api.
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
apipythonflask-appflasktwitter-api-v2
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