Ian Oxley
Senior Software Engineer at Sage
Alnwick, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIan Oxley is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years’ experience building resilient web platforms and APIs, currently delivering data migration and CI projects at Sage. He blends a pragmatic full-stack skillset—Ruby, Docker, JavaScript/React and C#/ASP.NET—with a strong focus on accessibility and front-end performance, having driven up to 90% improvements on legacy apps. A published author and SitePoint contributor, Ian also contributes to open source front-ends such as Habitica, where he improved semantic markup, keyboard navigation and responsive layouts to make the app more accessible. He has a track record of introducing developer tooling and automation (CI, test automation, event-driven services) and mentoring teams through complex migrations and GDPR-related workflows. Based in Alnwick, UK, he combines academic rigour from an MSc in Computer Science with practical experience across finance, CMS and SaaS domains.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hon's), Information Systems and Accounting, BSc (Hon's), Information Systems and Accounting at University of HertfordshireMSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at Newcastle University
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Github Skills (24)
accessibility10
javascript10
css10
browser10
vue10
html10
vue-jsx10
responsiveness9
debugging9
jquery9
ui-design9
dom-events9
asp-net9
redirect9
addeventlistener9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
HabitRPG/habitica
May 2018 - Mar 2019
A habit tracker app which treats your goals like a Role Playing Game.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 16 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily focused on improving the user interface and accessibility of the Habitica application. Their contributions involved replacing `<div>` tags with semantic HTML elements and implementing CSS grid layout for responsive design. The user also added `aria-label` attributes and made elements focusable with keyboard navigation to enhance accessibility for users with disabilities. Furthermore, the user updated components to include focus and hover styles for better user experience and added more accessible tags.
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Sage/zuora
Apr 2024 - Jul 2024
ActiveModel backed Zuora integration
Contributions:2 releases, 44 reviews, 9 PRs in 3 months
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