JohnĀ Wright
UK Infrastructure & Global Identity Engineer at Havas Shared Services Ltd.
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJohn Wright is a UK Infrastructure & Global Identity Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building and operating enterprise IT infrastructure and identity services from a servicedesk through to global engineering roles. Based in London, he has progressed through technical and leadership positions at Havas Shared Services, owning infrastructure, ITIL-aligned operations, and identity engineering workstreams. He combines practical systems administration know-how with developer sensibilitiesāevidenced by open-source contributions that enhance developer tooling in Atom and add Flow type definitions for popular JavaScript libraries. Comfortable bridging user-facing support and backend identity systems, he is adept at turning operational complexity into repeatable, auditable processes. Notably, his contributions to editor UX and type-safety projects signal a pragmatic interest in developer productivity as well as core infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
South London Schools
English
Github Skills (36)
atom-editor10
javascript10
flow-control10
coffeescript10
work-flow10
typescript10
file-icons10
uid10
front-end-development10
glyph-icons10
control-flow10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
lessc10
iconsets10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
flow-typed/flow-typed
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
A central repository for Flow library definitions
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 1 issue in 2 months
Contributions summary:John contributed to the `flow-typed/flow-typed` repository by adding and modifying Flow type definitions for various JavaScript libraries, including Chai, doubleclick-gpt, koa-router, and ramda. Their work involved creating new type definitions, updating existing ones, and ensuring type safety through the use of Flow. The contributions also included adding test cases to validate the type definitions.
libdefsflowtypedefinitionscli
atom/tree-view
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
š³ Explore and open project files in Atom
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 19 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:John focused on enhancing the Atom's tree-view functionality by implementing features for opening files in new and existing split panes using keyboard shortcuts. They modified the keymaps to include new key bindings for the added functionalities, enabling navigation using Vim keys. Furthermore, the user addressed a bug related to API changes, updating the code to reflect the latest API and made minor changes to variable names to prevent conflicts.
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