Laurence De Bruxelles
Developer at Government Digital Service
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLaurence De Bruxelles is a developer with 11 years' experience, currently building GOV.UK Forms at the Government Digital Service in London. He pairs front-end polish with practical full-stack maintenance, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like the GOV.UK Design System and Prototype Kit. His work emphasizes accessibility, robust testing, and real-world compatibility—improving cookie consent, adding preference forms with versioning, and modernising integration tests and CI for accessible-autocomplete. With a background in space systems engineering and physics, he brings a methodical, systems-oriented approach to web tooling and cross-browser build issues. Colleagues rely on him for dependable test isolation, dependency upgrades, and pragmatic fixes that keep public-facing services resilient.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Space Systems Engineering, Master's Degree, Space Systems Engineering at University of SouthamptonMaster's Degree, Physics, Master's Degree, Physics at Durham University
English
Github Skills (28)
accessibility10
git10
github-ci10
javascript10
puppeteer10
webdriverio10
npm10
testing10
css10
bash10
system-design10
ui-design10
cicd10
system10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/govuk-prototype-kit
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Rapidly create HTML prototypes of GOV.UK services
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 375 reviews, 657 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Laurence primarily focused on maintaining and improving the GOV.UK Prototype Kit, a tool for rapidly creating HTML prototypes of GOV.UK services. Their contributions included updating dependencies such as gulp-sass and fixing issues related to build processes and operating system compatibility, specifically on Windows. They refactored the update script, added features such as the CLEAN option, and ensured that the kit was easier to use and test. The user also made additions to the test suite to cover the update script functionality.
govprototype-kitprototypingprototypesgovernment
alphagov/accessible-autocomplete
Jun 2020 - Jun 2022
An autocomplete component, built to be accessible.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 reviews, 69 commits, 32 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Laurence focused on improving the integration tests for the accessible-autocomplete project. They updated the WebdriverIO test suite to use more modern practices, including upgrading to v6, updating selectors and methods, and correctly using browser keys. They also fixed issues related to the Chrome DevTools protocol and Internet Explorer compatibility, and added GitHub Actions workflows for automated testing. Furthermore, they updated dependencies related to testing.
autocomplete-componentaccessibletypeaheadjavascriptwcag
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