Sebastian Brown
Technical Director at Neon Jungle
Tasmania, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Brown is a Technical Director based in Tasmania with 11 years’ experience building reliable web platforms, specializing in Python and Django-backed systems. He leads engineering at Neon Jungle while remaining hands-on in backend and sysops work, and steps into frontend tasks when needed using Tailwind and htmx. An active Wagtail contributor, he has implemented core CMS features and search/date lookup improvements, showing a knack for pragmatic fixes that improve editor UX and admin reliability. Trained in computer science at the University of Tasmania, he pairs operational discipline with feature-focused development to ship maintainable, production-ready services.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computing, Computer Science at University of Tasmania
Github Skills (11)
cms10
python10
django10
database9
amazon-elasticsearch9
elasticsearch-api9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
elasticsearch9
databases9
testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wagtail/wagtail
May 2019 - Mar 2022
A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian contributed to the Wagtail CMS by implementing new features and fixing bugs related to core functionality. Their work included improvements to the search functionality, focusing on date lookups and backend implementations. They also addressed issues within the admin interface, adding functionality and fixing errors. Additionally, the user updated dependencies and addressed code style issues.
cmsmanagement-systempythondjangouser-experience
neon-jungle/wagtail-metadata
Sep 2016 - Sep 2022
A tool to assist with metadata for social media and search engines.
Contributions:3 reviews, 56 commits, 33 PRs in 6 years 1 month
search-enginesassistsocial-mediametadataengines
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