Ned Twigg
Programmer at DiffPlug, LLC
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNed Twigg is a seasoned programmer and founder with 12 years of engineering experience in San Francisco, blending embedded systems, real-time simulation, and build automation expertise. As CEO and principal developer at DiffPlug, he focuses on tooling and code quality—evidenced by meaningful contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Gradle and Spotless where he improved test infrastructure, stability, and build processes. His background spans aerospace-grade real-time systems and graphics research (including building a 3D engine and OpenGL/raytracing work at Autodesk), giving him a rare mix of low-level systems rigor and developer tooling fluency. He’s comfortable architecting cross-platform frameworks from baremetal ARM to Integrity RTOS and automating workflows to prevent regressions, and his GitHub motto—“A diff a day keeps the bugs away”—captures a pragmatic commitment to incremental quality.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Aerospace Engineering with Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Aerospace Engineering with Information Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (13)
testing10
javas10
automation10
build-tools10
automations10
build-system10
gradlew10
java10
code-formatting10
gradle10
groovy9
kotlin8
api-design7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
diffplug/spotless
Apr 2015 - Jan 2023
Keep your code spotless
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 347 reviews, 2598 commits in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ned primarily worked on maintaining and updating the Java code used by the "spotless" tool. The user's contributions involved refactoring existing code, fixing code formatting issues, and adding support for new and updated features. They also made changes to the testing infrastructure and documentation.
spotlessgradleformatterprettiersass
gradle/gradle
Jun 2021 - Nov 2021
Adaptable, fast automation for all
Role in this project:Backend & Automation Engineer
Backend & Automation EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 9 commits, 2 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ned Twigg primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure and build processes within the Gradle project. His contributions included refactoring the `TestWorker` class to enhance test execution, as well as replacing an unbounded queue with a bounded one for stability. Furthermore, Twigg updated the build process by bumping Spotless and removing it from the configuration cache unsupported tasks. His work indicates a focus on code quality, efficiency, and build automation.
pythongradlegroovyautomationjava
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