Scott Dutton
Senior Developer at Sykes Cottages
Greater Cheshire West and Chester Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Dutton is a Senior Developer with 13 years' experience building reliable back-end systems and pragmatic front-end enhancements, currently leading development at Sykes Cottages from Greater Cheshire. He combines a strong Maths & Computer Science foundation with hands-on work across PHP projects and JavaScript UI components, contributing to notable open-source repos like phpBB and composer/ca-bundle. His contributions span API design, email/notification logic, form UI widgets, and robustness fixes—demonstrating an eye for correctness, security and test coverage. Scott’s background includes data analysis and applications engineering in industrial environments, which informs his methodical approach to solving production issues and improving system resilience. He’s comfortable moving between user-facing UX details and low-level backend robustness, often fixing tricky edge cases and improving developer experience.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Maths and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, Maths and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Chester
Github Skills (26)
unit-testing10
javascript10
apidoc10
phpbb10
guzzle10
php10
api10
file-upload10
backbonejs10
openssl10
forum10
backbone10
mysql9
user-interface9
email-server9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
joindin/joindin-api
Nov 2016 - Feb 2019
The Joind.in API PHP Application
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:51 commits, 25 PRs, 126 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on back-end development, implementing features related to talk claims and comment notifications within the Joind.in API. They added the functionality to reject talk claims, updated the associated email notifications, and introduced a system to prevent speakers from receiving email notifications for their own comments. The user also made code cleanups. These changes involved modifications to talks and comment controllers, various mappers, and email service implementations.
apiphpphp-apiphp-application
powmedia/backbone-forms
Aug 2013 - Nov 2016
Form framework for BackboneJS with nested forms, editable lists and validation
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 20 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Backbone Forms library. Their work included adding functionality to the form's UI components, such as checkboxes, date pickers, and number inputs. They focused on ensuring the correct behavior of these components, like handling value updates and ensuring unique labels, and also wrote corresponding unit tests. Furthermore, the user addressed issues in the list editor, ensuring proper validation for nested models.
editablevalidationnested-formsbackbonejslists
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