Thomas Buckle
Senior Product Engineer at Arbor Education
Bradford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Buckle is a Senior Product Engineer with a decade of experience crafting resilient software and improving engineering processes across startups and scale-ups in the UK. Focused on design patterns, architecture and DevOps as a practice, he brings a systems-first perspective—something he attributes to his autistic hyper-systemisation, which helps him visualise and optimise complex flows. He’s shipped backend and full-stack improvements, notably enhancing DataTables’ Buttons and core library performance and exports for real-world interoperability. Thomas excels at pragmatic migrations and pipeline improvements, having driven analytics and multi-tenancy efforts in previous roles. Based in Bradford, he pairs hands-on coding with a relentless drive to improve tooling and methodology, and spends spare time reading deeply about software engineering, history and gaming.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computing BSc Computer Science, Computing BSc Computer Science at UHI
English
Github Skills (12)
html10
datatables10
xml10
javascript10
export-to-excel10
exports10
datatable10
excel10
testing10
apidoc9
api9
css9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DataTables/DataTablesSrc
Apr 2016 - Aug 2016
DataTables source repository
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:35 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on enhancing the performance and functionality of the DataTables library. They addressed performance issues related to column visibility settings, optimizing the code to improve efficiency. Additionally, the user added several new tests, including a zero-config test file, and modified existing tests to improve the testing framework's robustness. They also worked on the API of the library.
datatablesdatabase-accessbarrage
DataTables/Buttons
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Buttons is an extension for DataTables that adds control buttons to the table.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Thomas significantly improved the Excel export functionality of the DataTables Buttons extension. They implemented node-based file creation and added several built-in styles, enhancing styling and customization options. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs related to OpenOffice compatibility and made improvements to the row and column identifiers within the exported XLSX files, making the exported data more robust and versatile. They also fixed an issue with footer rendering when no footer tags are defined.
datatablescontrol-buttonsbuttonschrome-extension
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