Steven Wilkin
Contractor And Software Engineer at nulltheory.com
Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
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Top SchoolSteven Wilkin is a seasoned contractor and software engineer with 17 years of experience building and modernizing web platforms, primarily in Ruby on Rails, backed by a strong Linux and DevOps mindset. Based in Bangkok, he provides remote technical consultancy through his company and platforms like Toptal, delivering solutions for SMEs and multinational clients across finance, media, and research institutions. He brings deep operational experience with Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Docker/Kubernetes and cloud platforms, and a track record of improving code quality and routing/architecture in open-source projects such as codebar/planner. A self-described Linux fetishist and open-source advocate, he combines pragmatic engineering with tooling and infrastructure fluency, preferring contract work over permanent roles.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Portora Royal SchoolBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast
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Github Skills (9)
url-routing10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
configuration-management8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
codebar/planner
Nov 2014 - Dec 2014
🗓 the main codebar site
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 25 days
Contributions summary:Steven primarily focused on refactoring and improving the routing configuration of the `codebar/planner` repository. They made several changes to the `config/routes.rb` file, including DRYing up dashboard and admin workshop routes. Additionally, they streamlined routes by excluding specific verbs and removing duplicate entries. These modifications aimed to enhance code maintainability and organization within the Rails application.
ruby-on-railsnextjsrubycodebar
guidance-guarantee-programme/locator
Mar 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:57 PRs, 87 pushes, 55 branches in 1 year 4 months
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