Sertan Danis is a Team Lead at Squiz in Sydney with 14 years of software engineering experience, currently driving development of the MySource 4.0 CMS. He blends back-end expertise in PHP, Java and C-family languages with deep database performance and tuning skills across PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL and SQLServer. A hands-on leader, he contributes to well-known open-source tooling—improving code quality and test coverage in PHP_CodeSniffer and enhancing UX features in HTML_CodeSniffer’s accessibility auditor. His background in secure distributed systems from the University of Wollongong informs a pragmatic focus on maintainability, performance and accessibility. Colleagues rely on him for both low-level optimization and shaping product-facing CMS features.
14 years of coding experience
Bachelor, Computer Science (Secure Distributed Systems), Bachelor, Computer Science (Secure Distributed Systems) at University of Wollongong
HTML_CodeSniffer is a client-side JavaScript application that checks a HTML document or source code, and detects violations of a defined coding standard. Comes with standards that cover the three conformance levels of the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and the U.S. Section 508 legislation.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:22 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Sertan primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the HTML_CodeSniffer project, focusing on the Auditor tool. Their work involved implementing features such as an element pointer, dragging functionality for the auditor panel, and a settings panel with enhanced UI elements. Furthermore, they addressed bugs and refined the user interface elements by fixing styles and improving the user experience.
PHP_CodeSniffer tokenizes PHP files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sertan primarily focused on improving the code quality and maintainability of the PHP_CodeSniffer project. Their contributions included fixing coding standard issues, updating authors, and adding test cases to improve code coverage. They also addressed issues like fixing line wrapping and whitespace problems, which enhances the readability and adherence to coding standards. The user also merged branches and integrated code changes from other contributors.
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