Lucy Gilbert
Senior Software Engineer at Trail App
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLucy Gilbert is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of full-stack experience, currently building product at Trail App where she focuses on Ruby on Rails backends and React frontends for hospitality and retail work management. She has a pragmatic, results-oriented approach—preferring focused email contact over constant networking—and balances shipping private, production-grade features with selective open-source contributions. Her GitHub history includes meaningful front-end fixes to the popular react-datepicker component, demonstrating attention to UI reliability and test-driven improvements. Previously she cut her teeth on PHP/Symfony and Angular/Ionic at City Pantry, giving her a broad practical grounding across stacks. Based in London, she’s open to learning new languages and frameworks while delivering dependable, user-focused software.
11 years of coding experience
BTEC National Award Music Performance General, BTEC National Award Music Performance General at New College, Telford
English
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Github Skills (14)
javascript10
react10
react-datepicker9
datepicker9
datetimepicker9
date-fns8
rspec6
windows6
html6
php6
gitbash6
environment-variables6
ruby-on-rails6
jbuilder6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Hacker0x01/react-datepicker
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
A simple and reusable datepicker component for React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Lucy primarily focused on improving the functionality and reliability of the React datepicker component. Their contributions addressed critical bugs related to calendar behavior, such as preventing multiple clicks from unexpectedly closing the calendar. They also implemented and tested features like toggling the calendar display through input clicks and keyboard tabbing. These changes included modifications to both the component's core logic and its associated test suite, demonstrating a strong understanding of the component's behavior and testing practices.
datepicker-componentreactdate-fnsdatepickercalendar
lucygilbert/lucygilbert.co.uk
Jan 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
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