Paul Driver
Business Owner at easable.uk
Rochdale, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Driver is a seasoned Drupal site builder and front-end developer with 18 years of experience who runs his own web development practice, Easable, while also operating a local exterior cleaning business. He blends hands-on site-building and responsive UI work for growing businesses and schools with practical small-business leadership gained as a founder and business owner. Paul is an experienced back-end contributor to notable open-source projects, having improved request handling and URI construction in the Perl Dancer framework and contributed system-level mathematics and optimizations to the Urbit codebase. That mix of web-facing Drupal expertise and low-level engineering highlights an ability to move between pragmatic client work and deeper infrastructure problems. Based in Rochdale, he brings entrepreneurial grit, attention to detail, and a history of shipping durable solutions across both commercial and open-source projects.
18 years of coding experience
Ilkley Grammar School
Github Skills (11)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
nock10
webpages10
perl10
jet10
web-content10
psgi10
uri10
elliptic-curve-cryptography9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
urbit/urbit
Dec 2015 - Sep 2021
An operating function
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 328 commits, 23 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the core logic and data structures of the Urbit OS, specifically working within the Hoon programming language and the system's core components. Contributions involve implementing a new mathematical operation, rewriting existing jet calculations, and expanding the mathematical capabilities of the underlying code. The work suggests significant engagement with system-level optimization and enhancements.
nockrustoperating-systemp2phoon
PerlDancer/Dancer
Feb 2010 - Feb 2010
The easiest way to write web applications with Perl (Perl web micro-framework)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Dancer web framework. Their work focused on enhancing the request handling capabilities of the framework, specifically improving how path information and URIs are constructed and managed. They added a `uri_for` helper and refined the base URI generation while making the framework more robust in handling different environments. Furthermore, the user updated the framework to use the URL scheme from the PSGI environment.
micro-frameworkweb-applicationsdatabase-accesswebapplicationframework
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