Stuart Harrison
Lead Developer at dxw
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStuart Harrison is a Lead Developer based in England with 16 years of experience building public-sector and civic web applications, currently leading delivery for Ministry of Justice approved premises work at dxw. He is a pragmatic full-stack engineer fluent in Ruby on Rails and TypeScript/NestJS, with a track record of shipping accessible, maintainable systems for government departments including Education and BEIS. Stuart is an active open-source contributor—he has improved UI and backend features for the well-known mySociety FixMyStreet platform and added notification management to Octobox—demonstrating a bias for practical improvements that help real users. His background in local government web management and open data at the ODI gives him deep domain knowledge of civic workflows and data publishing. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on technical leader who balances delivery, refactoring, and product-facing UX work.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons) Communications, BA (Hons) Communications at University of LincolnA-Levels, English, Theatre Studies, Sociology andGeneral Studies, A-Levels, English, Theatre Studies, Sociology andGeneral Studies at King Edward VI School
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Github Skills (30)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
github10
testing10
css10
rails10
ruby10
front-end-development10
html10
notification9
jekyll9
factory-bot9
activerecord8
reporting-services8
python8
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
mysociety/fixmystreet
Jan 2017 - May 2017
This is mySociety's popular map-based reporting platform: easy to install in new countries and regions
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:93 commits, 35 PRs, 189 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Stuart's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and backend functionality for the FixMyStreet platform, particularly in the context of UK councils. They implemented features such as disabling checkboxes, rephrasing photo advice, and merging branches related to user interface and functionality. Furthermore, the user refactored the update metadata output and added permissions and other features. The commits also touched on admin interfaces, database schema updates, and improvements to the my planned features.
civictechcouncilsmysocietyreactvagrant
timwis/jkan
Apr 2016 - Jun 2017
A lightweight, backend-free open data portal, powered by Jekyll
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 14 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Stuart primarily worked on front-end enhancements to the open data portal. Their contributions included adding support for the Dcat metadata schema, integrating a license selection feature, and displaying license information on the front-end. They also modified dataset forms to allow custom licenses, further improving data management capabilities.
data-portalportalopen-databackendjekyll
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