Ludovic Tolhurst-cleaver
Consultant at Webhandler
Trafford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLudovic Tolhurst-cleaver is a seasoned consultant and full-stack developer with over 20 years’ hands-on experience specialising in Modern Perl, JavaScript, GNU/Linux and relational databases. He has delivered software across sectors including education, telecoms, travel and television, and has a track record of maintaining and enhancing large-scale enterprise applications and public-facing platforms. Comfortable from low-level scripting and DBAs tasks to front-end React and API work, he blends pragmatic engineering with strong ops skills (hosting, web server and deployment management). He’s contributed bug fixes and admin UI improvements to the widely used mySociety FixMyStreet project, showing an appetite for impactful open-source work. With an MSc in Computing and a background that spans C#/.NET to Raku and XSLT, he brings breadth as well as depth—and a long-running consultancy that combines client-facing delivery with durable, maintainable code.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computing, MSc, Computing at The Manchester Metropolitan UniversityBA (Hons.), Classics, 2:2, BA (Hons.), Classics, 2:2 at University of Bristol
English, German, French
Github Skills (10)
javascript10
reporting-services10
backend9
front-end-development9
back-end-development9
html9
css9
perl8
sql7
php7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mysociety/fixmystreet
Jul 2021 - Mar 2022
This is mySociety's popular map-based reporting platform: easy to install in new countries and regions
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:37 reviews, 81 commits, 51 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ludovic primarily focused on bug fixes and feature enhancements for the FixMyStreet platform. They addressed issues related to extra data handling in reporting, specifically fixing a JavaScript exception caused by spaces in code names. They also implemented changes to the admin interface, including updating the reports list and edit screens to show report assignments. Furthermore, the user contributed to various cobrand-specific implementations, including updating text and adding features like Google Analytics.
civictechcouncilsmysocietyreactvagrant
ludovic-tc/App-Diceroll
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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