Jeremy Ruston
Founder at Intertwingled Innovations
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJeremy Ruston is a founder and seasoned software leader based in Oxford with 14 years of formal industry experience and a programming journey that began in 1978. He created TiddlyWiki, a widely used open-source personal organiser that has become a platform for novel web applications, and continues to lead its community and development (see his active GitHub). Jeremy combines hands-on daily coding with founding and CTO roles across startups and enterprise teams in banking, telecoms and collaboration software, repeatedly building high-performing engineering organisations. His work blends product-focused design, open source advocacy and pragmatic architecture—evident from projects like TiddlyDesktop where he implemented cross-platform build and packaging features. He is fascinated by how society adapts to software’s possibilities and consults on challenging engagements around collaboration and the web. Beyond evident credentials, his career traces a continuous thread from early freelance technical authorship and TV animation to steering modern web tooling and community-driven products.
14 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Aysgarth SchoolRugby School
Github Skills (9)
sh10
script10
javascript10
shell10
nwjs10
scripting10
tiddlywiki9
html8
css7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
TiddlyWiki/TiddlyDesktop
Jan 2014 - Jan 2023
A custom desktop browser for TiddlyWiki 5 and TiddlyWiki Classic, based on nw.js
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:24 releases, 2 reviews, 311 commits in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jeremy focused on implementing new features and improving the build process for the TiddlyDesktop application. They added functionality to zip up builds for release, including the necessary shell scripting. They also began implementing support for working with wiki folders, including UI and main application logic. The user subsequently reverted these changes due to technical limitations.
tiddlywikinw-jselectronbrowserjavascript
Jermolene/tiddlywiki-on-fission
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
TiddlyWiki Application for Fission
Contributions:52 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 months
tiddlywiki5fissiontiddlywiki
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