John Morley
Software Engineer at Starling Bank
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Morley is a pragmatic software engineer with 13 years’ experience building production systems across finance and enterprise SaaS, currently contributing to Starling Bank after senior engineering roles at BJSS and The Hut Group. He combines a first-class Computer Science degree with hands-on expertise in REST APIs, UX reworks, and cloud-native IoT tooling developed during his time at SAP, where he led re-architecture and performance benchmarking efforts. Comfortable moving between frontend and backend concerns, he has shipped authenticated simulator services, persistence layers, and device-simulation integrations, demonstrating both systems thinking and attention to developer UX. A strong communicator and team player, he also contributes to open-source tooling for developer ergonomics—authoring Vim color schemes to improve code readability—revealing a practical eye for developer experience.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science with an Industrial Year, First class honours, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science with an Industrial Year, First class honours at University of BirminghamGaribaldi College
Github Skills (7)
colours10
customisation10
syntax-highlighting10
text-editor10
editor10
color-scheme10
vimscript10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
flazz/vim-colorschemes
Dec 2013 - Mar 2014
one colorscheme pack to rule them all!
Role in this project:
UI Designer
UI DesignerContributions:5 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the `flazz/vim-colorschemes` repository by adding new color scheme files written in Vimscript. Each commit introduces a new `.vim` file that defines the syntax highlighting for various code elements within the Vim editor, such as comments, strings, keywords, and other language-specific features. The commits demonstrate a focus on customizing the visual appearance and readability of code within the Vim environment by defining a range of color palettes.
ruleneovimpackcolorscheme
Morley93/awesome-themes-3.5
Jun 2013 - Jun 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years
themesdark-themevim
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