Jack Wilsdon
Software Engineer at Fortx
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJack Wilsdon is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building backend systems and shipping production features across startups and large-scale environments. Based in Manchester, he has progressed from placement developer roles to senior engineering at bet365 and most recently contributes at Fortx, bringing practical experience in high-throughput, product-focused teams. Jack is an active open-source contributor—his work on the popular beets music library improved plugin flexibility and added event hooks and tests, showing attention to extensibility and quality. He blends pragmatic engineering with a knack for improving developer ecosystems, often tackling plugin architectures and test coverage that benefit other contributors. Jack holds a BSc in Computer Software Engineering from Manchester Metropolitan University and pairs steady delivery with a curiosity for tooling and integration work that quietly elevates projects.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
A Level Computing, A Level Computing at Runshaw CollegeBachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Software Engineering at The Manchester Metropolitan University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
unit-testing10
music-manager10
pytest10
python10
testing10
plugin-development10
media-library10
musicxml10
unit-test10
cli9
musicbrainz8
react6
material-design6
deferred6
php6
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
beetbox/beets
Sep 2015 - Dec 2022
music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 156 commits, 94 PRs in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jack contributed to the beets music library manager by implementing new features and fixing existing bugs. They added a configuration option for the Plex update plugin allowing users to select the Plex library to update and added tests to verify this functionality. Additionally, the user added a hook plugin to run commands on events emitted by beets and added associated tests. The changes focused on enhancing the plugin ecosystem and fixing minor code style issues.
clipythonmusicbrainztaggermusic
jackwilsdon/svnwatch
Jun 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:1 release, 72 commits, 44 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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