Neil Van Beinum
Ruby Developer at char.gy
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNeil Van Beinum is a Ruby developer with 12 years of experience building and maintaining web applications, currently working at char.gy after a long tenure as a Ruby on Rails developer at Unboxed. He has contributed to prominent open-source projects like GOV.UK’s Whitehall and the Bridgetown static site framework, touching both back-end models and UX features such as dark-mode theming. Neil combines solid back-end expertise—model design, controller logic, PDF reporting—with full-stack sensibilities and attention to code quality and compatibility (Rubocop fixes, Rack 3 updates). Based in Sheffield, he brings academic grounding from Edinburgh and Kent alongside practical delivery across startups and product teams. Peers would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who quietly improves developer experience and production reliability.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Bachelor of Science (BSc) at The University of EdinburghMaster of Science (MSc), Master of Science (MSc) at University of Kent
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Github Skills (25)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
static-site-generator10
css10
rspec10
rails10
ruby10
html10
activerecord10
testing9
postgresql9
esbuild9
jamstack9
ruby-on-rails9
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bridgetownrb/bridgetown
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
A next-generation progressive site generator & fullstack framework, powered by Ruby
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 7 commits, 11 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Neil primarily focused on improving the front-end and back-end functionality of the Bridgetown framework. They implemented dark mode theming, which involved styling UI elements and creating a theme picker component. Additionally, the user resolved Rubocop offenses, updated tests for Rack 3 compatibility, and corrected locale handling, demonstrating their involvement in code quality and framework maintenance. Further, the user made contributions to the build process by updating build configuration files.
full-stackrubysite-generatorbridgetownjamstack
alphagov/whitehall
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 14 PRs, 31 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Neil primarily focused on back-end development tasks related to the Whitehall publishing platform. Their work involved modifying the `Group` model, including adding methods to manage group memberships, ensuring member order preservation, and handling attribute updates. Additionally, they contributed to the `Admin::GroupsController` by modifying how group member parameters are handled, and implementing logic to update group data. Furthermore, the user also worked on the PDF reporting functionality.
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