Nige White
Owner at Animal Software
Pomarède, Occitania, France
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Top SchoolNige White is a seasoned front-end software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of focused experience building data-centric, high-performance web UIs. As Owner of Animal Software and Lead UI Engineer at Bryntum, he specializes in complex grid and tree components that handle extremely large datasets with buffered rendering and just-in-time loading. Previously a Senior Software Architect at Sencha, he advanced ExtJS capabilities—introducing component-rich cells, ViewModel-driven two-way binding, and incremental data caching—to make dynamic enterprise interfaces feasible at scale. Based in rural Occitania, France, he brings a pragmatic consultancy mindset to product engineering, blending deep component-level design with hands-on implementation. A JavaScript and dynamic UI enthusiast since before AJAX became a buzzword, he pairs historical perspective with modern patterns to solve UI performance challenges.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC Computer Studies, Software Engineering, Business Information Systems, Distinction, BTEC Computer Studies, Software Engineering, Business Information Systems, Distinction at Derby Lonsdale College of Higher Education
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (97)
offscreencanvas10
visual-studio10
javascript10
editor10
ecmascript10
json10
multi-window10
webworker10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
virtual-dom10
microsoft10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ExtAnimal/chronograph
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Reactive, graph-based, computation engine
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 5 days
computationgraph-basedreactivegraph
TrancePaul/ForumExtension
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Bryntum Grid extension for Google chrome to track forum questions easily
Contributions:1 PR in 1 day
discourseforumchromeduolingogoogle-chrome
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