Michael Tandy
Senior Software Engineer at Rocket Science Group
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Tandy is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cardiff with 14 years of experience specializing in React and front-end engineering. He currently drives front-end delivery at Rocket Science Group after building production-grade UIs for automotive and DevOps-focused products using TypeScript, Next.js, TRPC, React Query and comprehensive testing stacks. Michael is an active open-source contributor to noUiSlider, improving accessibility, RTL handling and test coverage—demonstrating attention to edge cases and inclusive design. He pairs strong UI craftsmanship (Storybook, Figma, CSS methodologies) with pragmatic DevOps and CI practices from Azure DevOps to Jest/Cypress pipelines. Colleagues value him for shipping robust, well-tested interfaces that balance performance and accessibility. His background in sociology/psychology gives him an uncommon, user-centric perspective on product UX and team collaboration.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Sociology/Psychology, Bachelor's degree Sociology/Psychology at City St George’s, University of London
Github Skills (13)
keyboard-layout10
keyboard-input10
javascript10
react-components10
component-kit10
react-component10
keyboard10
testing10
accessibility9
qunit8
typescript4
typescripts4
typescript-types4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
leongersen/noUiSlider
Jan 2016 - Jun 2016
noUiSlider is a lightweight, ARIA-accessible JavaScript range slider with multi-touch and keyboard support. It is fully GPU animated: no reflows, so it is fast; even on older devices. It also fits wonderfully in responsive designs and has no dependencies.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the development and improvement of the noUiSlider library's front-end aspects. Their work involved fixing bugs related to RTL slider tests and three-handle sliders. The user also implemented and tested features related to accessibility, including keypress responses for nonlinear sliders. The user also improved the testing suite by fixing unit tests, adding new tests, and enhancing overall test coverage.
dependencieskeyboardaccessibilitynouisliderkeyboard-support
michaeltandy/contraction-hierarchies
Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:159 commits, 109 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year
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