Neil Ashford
Software Engineer at Atlassian
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Ashford is a software engineer based in Brisbane with a decade of experience building full-stack, high-performance systems across cloud, IoT and web applications. He has worked at Atlassian and Tiny and contributed meaningful improvements to the widely used TinyMCE rich text editor—adding features like line-height support and fixing tricky editor interactions that improve UX and integration. Comfortable across in-memory index structures, frontend behavior and backend refactors, Neil combines practical engineering with a focus on maintainability and performance. He also has a background in tutoring university-level computing courses, reflecting strong communication skills and a tendency to explain complex systems clearly.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) and Master of Engineering, Software Engineering, 6.5, Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) and Master of Engineering, Software Engineering, 6.5 at The University of Queensland
Github Skills (10)
html10
editors10
contenteditable10
javascript10
editor10
rich-text-editor10
testing9
architecture8
architectures8
css7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tinymce/tinymce
Jun 2020 - Dec 2021
The world's #1 JavaScript library for rich text editing. Available for React, Vue and Angular
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:771 reviews, 105 commits, 131 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Neil's commits primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and user experience of the TinyMCE rich text editor. Their work involved implementing new features like handling HTML data URLs and fixing interactions with the quicklink toolbar and undo stack. They also addressed bug fixes related to editor cleanup, cursor placement, and integration with the table plugin. Furthermore, their contributions included updating the help dialog, adding line height support, and refactoring code for better performance and maintainability.
vue-reactrich-textvuewysiwyg-editorrichtext
ashfordneil/shelf
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:49 commits in 2 days
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