Jack Bracewell
Senior Software Engineer at Carwow
Ealing, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Bracewell is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable backend systems, primarily using Ruby and Postgres, and a growing interest in operations. He has a track record across fast-moving product teams—from Deliveroo and Cleo to public-sector projects like the Department for Education and COVID-19 contact tracing at Public Health England—bringing both startup agility and compliance-minded delivery. Comfortable shipping pragmatic tooling and refactors, he has contributed backend logic, terminal functionality and tests to the high-profile neovim open-source project, showing attention to low-level detail and QA. Jack has minor experience in Go and Python and is open to learning new languages for the right role, making him adaptable for polyglot environments. Based in Ealing, UK, he blends deep backend expertise with an operator’s curiosity, often gravitating toward areas where code meets infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Cardinal Newman CollegeMaster of Engineering - MEng Computing, Master of Engineering - MEng Computing at Imperial College London
Github Skills (8)
c1710
vim10
neovim10
c1110
text-editor10
testing9
lua9
api8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
neovim/neovim
Mar 2016 - Mar 2017
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 31 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jack contributed to the back-end logic of the NeoVim project by refactoring buffer handling and implementing terminal functionality. They also addressed a bug related to missing colons in error messages and utilized a patch from Vim regarding a comment update. Furthermore, they developed test fixtures to ensure the correct behavior of the `terminal` and `fillchars` features, indicating involvement in the testing aspect of the project.
usabilityapiluavimvim-plugin
FriedSock/Dotfiles
Oct 2013 - Jul 2020
Contributions:46 commits, 9 pushes in 6 years 9 months
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