Lyndon Maydwell is an engineering leader and advisor with 16 years of experience building backend systems, architecture and commercial-facing solutions across startups and consultancies. He combines hands-on implementation—contributing to notable open-source Haskell projects such as wai, scotty and Hasura’s graphql-engine—with team leadership, mentoring and solution prototyping for analytics, enterprise auth and deep-learning initiatives. As a founder of a minimalist web studio and former Head of Engineering at Silverpond, he spans sales, product delivery and technical execution end-to-end. He also chairs and organizes functional programming events in Melbourne, reflecting a sustained commitment to strongly-typed FP communities and developer education. Notably, his open-source contributions include middleware and routing improvements that demonstrate pragmatic attention to correctness, testing and dependency management.
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 reviews, 73 commits, 11 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Lyndon primarily focused on back-end development, as demonstrated by their contributions. Their work involved implementing new features related to CORS headers, allowing field names starting with reserved keywords, passing environment variables as a data structure and improving PG span tracing. They also supported RESTified versions of GraphQL queries and addressed bugs in the server's code.
Contributions:1 review, 23 commits, 2 comments in 9 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Lyndon contributed primarily to the `wai-extra` library, focusing on enhancements to the `methodOverridePost` middleware. Their work included implementing the middleware, adding tests, repopulating the request body, and adding documentation. Furthermore, the user addressed dependencies by including a cabal dependency on `resourcet`, demonstrating an understanding of project dependencies.
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