Ian Merryweather
Director at Appliance Doctors Ltd
Isle of Man
Summary
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RockstarIan Merryweather is a Director and hands-on iOS developer based in the Isle of Man with eight years of software engineering experience. He combines leadership of Appliance Doctors Ltd with practical front-end chops, notably improving UI/UX for community-driven projects like Roll20 character sheets. Ian focuses on polish and usability—refactoring image systems, fixing styling quirks, and adding features like public/GM roll toggles and color pickers to enhance player interaction. He’s opinionated about modern iOS tooling and prefers Swift over legacy Objective-C, bringing pragmatic technical standards to product decisions. Comfortable bridging product, design, and engineering, he delivers small but impactful improvements that raise overall user satisfaction.
8 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
html10
css10
character-sheet10
ui-design9
interface-design9
user-interface9
fest6
ios6
swift6
protocols6
dictionary6
extension-methods6
uicollectionview-cell6
uicollectionview6
closures6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Roll20/roll20-character-sheets
Jul 2019 - Sep 2022
Character sheet templates created by the community for use in Roll20 VTT. Submit a ticket at roll20.net/help if critical hotfixes are to be requested.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 93 commits, 43 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily focused on the front-end development of character sheets for the Roll20 VTT platform. Their contributions include squashing inline roll result styling issues, correcting font weights, and refactoring the background image selection into a variable system. They implemented a toggle button for rolling publicly or to the GM and incorporated color selection features within the class and origin feature boxes. These modifications and new features suggest a focus on improving the user interface and functionality of the character sheets.
templatecriticalazerothcoreroll20sheet
mrianmerry/PTA
Jul 2018 - Feb 2023
Companion to the tabletop roleplaying game.
Contributions:52 PRs, 69 pushes, 55 branches in 4 years 7 months
gameroleplaying-gamecompanionroleplayingtabletop
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