Neill Pearman
Freelance Engineering Lead at Freelance (Self employed)
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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Top SchoolNeill Pearman is a freelance engineering lead with over 16 years of hands-on experience designing and shipping web applications and APIs across startups and large enterprises. He blends technical leadership with deep full-stack skills—having led teams, built core platform APIs, and contributed to notable open-source work like integrating iCalendar parsing into the popular FullCalendar JS library. Recently he has been directing practical AI efforts: architecting LLM-driven developer tools, prototype services for complex structured-data extraction, and comparative evaluations across GPT, Claude and Gemini families. Comfortable in Python, TypeScript and Ruby on Rails, he pairs pragmatic engineering (from CI to data modelling) with product-focused prototyping. Based in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Neill has a track record of turning complex domain requirements into reliable, test-driven solutions and a particular knack for making emergent AI tech operational in privacy-sensitive contexts.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Aylesbury Grammar SchoolBSc, Computer Science & Maths, BSc, Computer Science & Maths at University of Leeds
Github Skills (9)
fullcalendar10
javascript10
event-handling10
calendars10
testing10
front-end-development9
typescripts3
typescript3
typescript-types3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fullcalendar/fullcalendar
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Full-sized drag & drop event calendar in JavaScript
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 27 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:Neill primarily contributed to the integration of iCalendar functionality within the FullCalendar library. They implemented the parsing of iCalendar feeds, extracting event data, and displaying events within the calendar. The user also wrote tests to ensure the correct handling of events, including all-day events and those with specified durations, demonstrating a strong understanding of both the frontend and data parsing aspects of the integration. Furthermore, they worked on an example demonstrating the use of the iCalendar functionality within a simple HTML page.
javascriptcalendareventfull-sized
njpearman/my-system-settings
Feb 2020 - Jul 2025
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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