Lindsay Gaines
Principal Software Engineer at The Superpower Institute
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolLindsay Gaines is a Principal Software Engineer based in Melbourne with 11 years of experience building high-traffic full-stack web experiences across arts, education, logistics and finance. He blends hands-on front-end expertise—leading teams and improving Vue test tooling—with backend work such as hardening iCalendar generation in a popular open-source calendar-links library. His career progressed from Drupal and PHP development to technical leadership and principal engineering roles, demonstrating a strong grounding in both systems and UX-facing code. Lindsay excels at shipping reliable, testable web platforms and mentoring teams through architecture and delivery challenges. He has a track record of contributing pragmatic fixes and tests upstream in widely used projects, showing attention to interoperability and edge-case correctness. Known for bringing arts-sector empathy to product engineering, he pairs technical rigor with user-focused design sensibilities.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
Github Skills (14)
test-automation10
testing10
vue-test-utils10
php10
javascript10
vue-test10
component-testing10
vue10
vue-jsx10
icalendar10
calendars9
datetimes9
unit-testing9
datetime9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
vuejs/test-utils
Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
Vue Test Utils for Vue 3
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 7 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Lindsay primarily contributed to the testing framework for the Vue Test Utils library. They added tests for new functionalities, specifically focusing on capturing emitted events, including those from class-style and functional components, and also for native events. They also improved the event handling and propagation of events within the component wrappers. Further contributions include the addition of a stub component for RouterLink and ensured it correctly passes slot props.
vue-3vue3vue-testvueutils
spatie/calendar-links
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
Generate add to calendar links for Google, iCal and other calendar systems
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 comments, 1 issue in 2 months
Contributions summary:Lindsay primarily focused on improving the ICS (iCalendar) generation capabilities of the `spatie/calendar-links` repository. Their commits involve escaping special characters within strings used in the ICS format to ensure proper parsing by calendar applications, updating test cases to reflect these changes, and introducing a unified method for string escaping. They also merged upstream changes, indicating participation in maintaining the project's code base.
datetimecalendaricalendargooglephp
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