Thibaud Colas
President at Torchbox
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolThibaud Colas is a seasoned technical lead and web engineer with 13 years of experience blending front-end craftsmanship and back-end reliability across open-source and product teams. Based in Cambridge, he currently serves as President of the Django Software Foundation, sits on its board, and contributes to the Wagtail core while leading product work at Torchbox. He has a strong track record improving UI, accessibility, and developer experience—applying Tailwind theming, refining rich-text components, and adding robust unit tests for popular libraries like smooth-scroll. Comfortable across the full stack, he has shipped features for djangoproject.com, maintained django-recaptcha, and produced tooling to parse and expose project documentation as structured APIs. Passionate about accessibility, AI, and climate action, he pairs technical rigor with community stewardship and mentoring. Notably, his contributions often focus on quality and maintainability—cleaning styles, improving tests, and modernizing code for long-term project health.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Université Montpellier 2
French, English, french sign language, Finnish
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Github Skills (39)
accessibility10
smooth-scrolling10
unit-testing10
json10
site-design10
javascript10
python10
apidoc10
django10
testing10
css10
django-cms10
google-recaptcha10
wagtail10
api10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
springload/awesome-wagtail
Jun 2016 - Sep 2019
A curated list of awesome packages, articles, and other cool resources from the Wagtail community.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 100 commits, 132 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Thibaud primarily contributed to the development of an API payload generator for the `awesome-wagtail` project. They wrote a Python script to parse the `README.md` file and extract data into a structured JSON format. Their work involved refactoring the code, adding sections for parsing different content types within the README, and ensuring Python 2/3 compatibility. They also focused on improving the API script's debugability and removing the saving of JSON as ASCII.
cmspythondjangowagtaildjango-cms
wagtail/bakerydemo
Dec 2017 - Jan 2023
Next generation Wagtail demo, born in Reykjavik
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:61 reviews, 26 commits, 68 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Thibaud primarily focused on improving the front-end styling and structure of the bakerydemo project. They made several CSS adjustments, including removing unnecessary style overrides, cleaning up input width definitions, and fixing media query issues. Additionally, they updated the HTML template to make the bread list items clickable links. These changes likely enhanced the user interface and improved the overall user experience.
djangonext-generationwagtail
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