Oli Folkerd
Director Of Development - Innovation And Insights
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOli Folkerd is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years delivering bespoke web, native and cloud-native systems, now serving as Director of Development - Innovation and Insights. He combines hands-on engineering—authoring and improving the popular Tabulator JS data-grid—with strategic ownership of large-scale AWS architectures, business management platforms and real-time virtual event systems. Known for turning tight-deadline, experimental briefs into polished, production-grade products, he blends meticulous attention to detail with a taste for unconventional, experiential projects. Oli mentors growing teams, shapes long-term technology strategy, and retains a developer’s curiosity that drives continuous personal learning and inventive problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Electronics & Software Engineering, MEng Electronics & Software Engineering at Loughborough University
English
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
ui-components10
front-end-development10
laravel9
php9
html9
refactoring8
refactor8
tabulator6
data-structures6
filter6
vue6
context-menu6
css6
jquery6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
olifolkerd/tabulator
Oct 2015 - Dec 2022
Interactive Tables and Data Grids for JavaScript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:165 releases, 1 review, 3925 commits in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Oli's commits primarily focused on improving the Tabulator interactive table library. They addressed issues related to the data tree functionality by ensuring it correctly accounted for the `dataTree` option when looking up row groups. Additionally, they added functionality to enhance data loading control with more direct control of column change flagging. They also improved the code by adding new classes and events to increase the user's level of control over the UI.
widgetdatagrid-layoutcdnjsajax
olifolkerd/convertor
Dec 2015 - Aug 2022
A PHP unit conversion library
Contributions:2 releases, 55 commits, 9 PRs in 6 years 9 months
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