Phil Gyford
N A at Overmorgen Ltd
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPhil Gyford is a seasoned web craftsman with 17 years of professional experience designing and building web products, from early HTML days to modern Ruby, Python and JavaScript work. He has led small teams and freelance studios, most recently running Well-Formed Ltd and now building independent “internet things,” with clients including Google, the BBC and Channel 4. Phil blends front-end UX sensibility with back-end problem-solving — evidence includes contributions to the popular Twython library where he improved tweet-to-HTML rendering and fixed media-handling bugs. Comfortable in both creative and technical roles, he’s as likely to sketch a user flow as to debug an API edge case. Based in England, he pairs a graphic-design background and theatre training with a pragmatic, long-term view of web systems and their maintenance.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Studies of the Future, Master of Science (MSc), Studies of the Future at University of Houston-Clear LakeBA (Hons), Graphic Design and Illustration, BA (Hons), Graphic Design and Illustration at University of the West of EnglandInitiation and Advanced Courses, Devising Theatre and Performance, Initiation and Advanced Courses, Devising Theatre and Performance at London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA)
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
lib10
api10
python10
apidoc10
twitter-api10
ansible9
django9
unit-testing9
regular-expression8
heroku6
namespaces6
javascript6
django-imagekit6
pytest6
mocking6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ryanmcgrath/twython
Apr 2016 - Jan 2018
Actively maintained, pure Python wrapper for the Twitter API. Supports both normal and streaming Twitter APIs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 14 PRs, 19 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Phil primarily focused on enhancing the `html_for_tweet()` function within the Twython library. Their contributions involved improving the replacement of entities like URLs, mentions, symbols, and hashtags with corresponding HTML links. Furthermore, the user fixed bugs related to video uploads and the handling of missing symbol data in tweet entities. They also made adjustments to the test suite to ensure the reliability of the `html_for_tweet()` functionality.
apiactively-maintainedpythonpython-wrappertwitter-streaming
philgyford/s3-backup
Oct 2019 - Jun 2022
A python 3 script for backing up S3 buckets and folders to a local filesystem
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 8 months
pythonbucketslocal-filesystempython-3filesystem
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