Spencer Dixon
Senior Ruby Developer at HM Revenue & Customs
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSpencer Dixon is a Senior Ruby and Python developer with 11 years’ experience delivering large-scale web applications across government, non-profit and commercial sectors. He has a strong track record modernising legacy platforms and reducing operational cost and complexity—most notably re-architecting a charity grant matching platform to cut running costs from £1,000/month to ~£50 with a 60% reduction in complexity. A contractor by preference, Spencer has shipped services for UK Government Digital Services, the Department for Education, HMRC and global conservation projects like IBAT and Protected Planet. Full-stack focused, he favours Rails (including Hotwire and GraphQL) and pragmatic integrations such as OKTA SSO and event-driven patterns. He combines hands-on implementation with architectural oversight, often acting as technical lead on outsourced projects. Based in the UK, he runs 295labs to deliver consultancy-grade engineering for mission-driven organisations.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Internet Computing, Internet Computing at University of Lincoln
Github Skills (86)
jquery9
taxonomy9
search-interface8
casa8
ruby-rails8
slack-bot7
ruby7
grasp7
rails7
docker7
compass7
braintree7
react7
mapping-tools6
pundit6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
unepwcmc/grasp
Jun 2016 - Feb 2019
GRASP Database - GReat Apes Survival Partnership
Contributions:97 PRs, 177 pushes, 96 branches in 2 years 8 months
survivalgreatdatabaseapespartnership
unepwcmc/MacarthurWatersheds
Jan 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:10 PRs, 41 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 3 months
mappingwatershed
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