Thomas Sileghem
Backend Engineer at Distributed Crafts
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Sileghem is a Backend Engineer with 12 years of experience specialising in JavaScript and TypeScript, primarily building Node.js backends and React front-ends. He has co-founded and led engineering teams at TwoTwentyThree, driven migrations to modern JS tooling, and improved build performance significantly in production systems. An active open-source maintainer, he contributes to popular webpack plugins (including improvements to webpack-manifest-plugin and html-webpack-plugin) and maintains projects that streamline bundling and NoSQL interfaces. Currently based in London, he’s expanding into DevOps (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) while looking for Node.js contracts or small-to-medium projects to take on with his team. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who pairs hands-on implementation with developer enablement through workshops and tooling.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Higher National Diploma Computer Science, Higher National Diploma Computer Science at IUT informatique de Ifs
English, French
Github Skills (7)
plugin-development10
javascript10
nodejs10
webpacker10
webpack10
testing9
cicd8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
shellscape/webpack-manifest-plugin
Jul 2017 - Dec 2019
webpack plugin for generating asset manifests
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 72 commits, 89 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on maintaining and improving the webpack-manifest-plugin. Their contributions involved fixing tests, updating testing infrastructure, and adding features such as filter, map, and reduce options for customizing the manifest generation process. They also addressed issues related to pathing, public paths, and file writing to ensure the plugin's functionality. The user also implemented several changes to tests, fixing them and making them more strict, and added support for recent node and webpack versions.
webpack-pluginwebpack3manifesthtml-webpack-pluginplugin
mastilver/module-to-cdn
Mar 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:44 commits, 6 PRs, 30 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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