Russell Briggs
Senior Full-stack Software Engineer at Spyrosoft
Greater Colchester Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRussell Briggs is a Senior Full-stack Software Engineer with 11 years’ experience designing and delivering cloud-native web applications across startups, government and enterprise. He combines deep JavaScript/TypeScript and React expertise with Python backend work, containerised CI/CD pipelines and AWS infrastructure design, and has led teams to adopt continuous deployment and modern developer workflows. Russell has architected SaaS platforms from the ground up (notably an ERP for IT asset disposal) and contributed to popular open-source tooling like the Xero Node SDK by improving API error handling and test coverage. He mentors engineers, drives legacy modernisation (including Odoo migrations and Docker-based dev setups) and balances pragmatic engineering with strong quality and automation practices. Based in Greater Colchester, he pairs hands-on implementation with product-focused thinking and an appetite for using AI tooling to boost developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Essex
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Github Skills (18)
apidoc10
testing10
api10
error-handling10
nodejs10
classpath9
kotlin9
accounting9
sdk9
fileio9
compression6
stream6
inputstream6
cross-browser6
classloader6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
XeroAPI/xero-node
Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
Xero Node SDK for OAuth 2.0 generated from XeroAPI/Xero-OpenAPI
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 1 PR, 28 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Russell contributed to the Xero Node SDK, focusing on improving error handling and testing. They added functionality to return status codes with API endpoint errors in the `lib/application.js` file. Additionally, the user implemented basic error response tests within the test suite, demonstrating an understanding of API behavior and testing methodologies. They also removed unnecessary console logging and addressed integration test issues.
accountingopenapispecnode-sdkoauth-2sdk
RevJS/revjs
Apr 2016 - Apr 2019
RevJS - Rev up your data-driven JS app development!
Contributions:1 release, 1012 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years
data-drivenreactjavascriptrevnodejs
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