Thomas Welton
Principal Frontend Engineer at JustPark
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Welton is a Principal Frontend Engineer based in London with 13 years of web development experience spanning full-stack PHP systems and modern frontend tooling. He has progressed from lead developer roles to technical director and now leads frontend architecture and delivery at JustPark, where he blends UX-focused UI work with scalability and ops knowledge. A prolific open-source contributor, he has patched OAuth libraries and improved Bootstrap’s front-end behavior (including a fix to prevent layout shifts when fonts load). Comfortable as both sole developer and team lead, he brings practical expertise in Laravel, Symfony, jQuery, SASS/LESS, Redis and deployment tooling like Puppet and Vagrant. Off the clock he’s addicted to GitHub, coffee and sushi — a hint at the focused, detail-oriented approach he brings to engineering.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Maths, Maths, Physics, Maths, Maths, Physics at University of Leeds
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
bootstrap10
apidoc10
css10
sass10
php10
css-frameworks10
api10
html10
bootstra10
oauth10
dropbox8
heroku8
psr-27
mcrypt6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
daviddesberg/PHPoAuthLib
Aug 2013 - Oct 2013
PHP 5.3+ oAuth 1/2 Client Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to bug fixes and code improvements within the PHP OAuth library. Their work involved correcting declaration incompatibilities, fixing token storage issues, and updating authorization methods for various services like Foursquare and Dropbox. Additionally, the user implemented PSR-2 compliance across multiple files and added support for the Heroku service.
php-5client-libraryphpauthenticationflarum
twbs/bootstrap
Aug 2013 - Jun 2014
The most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Bootstrap framework. They implemented a `glyphicon-block` class to prevent layout shifts when font files load. They added drag and drop configuration import functionality to the customizer, modifying the UI for uploading and processing JSON configuration files. The user also addressed issues related to font sizes in the CSS and updated the customizer functionality.
sassdevelopingcssjavascriptjavascript-framework
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