Jem Gillam
Wears Many Hats
Chandler's Ford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJem Gillam is a versatile software engineer and community steward with 10 years’ experience helping run Graphile, the team behind PostGraphile—a Node-based tool that auto-generates high-performance GraphQL APIs on Postgres. Based in Chandler's Ford, they combine full-stack development with community support and documentation work, having shipped UI and website improvements, feature pages, and a V5 beta banner for Graphile's Crystal monorepo. Jem is as comfortable fixing links and expanding menus as they are contributing to core OSS work across GraphQL, Postgres, and Node ecosystems. A maker at heart, they’ve volunteered as a makerspace trustee and enjoy experimenting with hardware and playful projects (ask about Alan the Dalek). They bring a people-first approach to tech events and community building, translating user excitement into practical improvements for both projects and documentation. Their blend of hands-on engineering, community leadership, and curiosity makes them a pragmatic driver of open-source product quality and adoption.
10 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (10)
docusaurus10
website-development10
react10
wpgraphql9
documentation9
wordpress-graphql9
graphql9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
graphile/crystal
May 2018 - Dec 2022
🔮 Graphile's Crystal Monorepo; home to Grafast, PostGraphile, pg-introspection, pg-sql2 and much more!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 49 commits, 96 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jem primarily contributed to the PostGraphile project by modifying website documentation and UI elements. They implemented a V5 beta banner and fixed existing links. The user added a news blog, the new features page, and expanded table styling. The user also worked on expanding the menus.
expressadonisjsgraphileknexjsnodejs
jemgillam/migrate
Nov 2019 - Dec 2024
Opinionated SQL-powered productive roll-forward migration tool for PostgreSQL.
Contributions:1 push, 4 branches in 5 years 1 month
migration-toolmysqlsqlproductivemigrations
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