Tim Wisniewski
Staff Platform Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Wisniewski is a Staff Platform Engineer based in London with 13 years of experience helping public sector organisations adopt modern technology practices at both technical and organisational levels. He blends hands-on engineering, architecture and executive leadership—including CTO and Director roles—to deliver pragmatic, evidence-driven digital transformation for governments and charities. Tim has led rapid-response projects (an MVP CRM for Camden Council in three weeks) and scaled city-wide initiatives as Philadelphia’s Chief Data Officer, launching major sites and automations while reducing legacy burden. He is an active open-source contributor across front-end and static-site ecosystems, with work on notable projects like Jekyll, Choo and a lightweight open data portal that includes CI/CD and improved UX. Equally comfortable in code and boardroom, he pairs a practitioner’s attention to quality (tests, refactors and routing improvements) with an ability to build teams and funding-ready programs. Outside work he remains a frontline volunteer, reinforcing a delivery-first ethic grounded in public service.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons), Political Science, BA (Hons), Political Science at Richmond American University London
Github Skills (24)
javascript10
testing10
css10
ruby10
front-end-development10
jekyll10
html10
liquid10
csv10
web-framework9
blog-engine9
web-frontend9
frontend9
automations8
automation8
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
timwis/jkan
Feb 2016 - Jan 2023
A lightweight, backend-free open data portal, powered by Jekyll
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 10 reviews, 389 commits in 7 years
Contributions summary:Tim focused on enhancing the open data portal's functionality and user experience. They implemented changes to the front-end, utilizing base URLs and pagination for improved navigation and information presentation. Additionally, the user set up a CI/CD pipeline with Travis CI to automate deployments and improve the workflow and stability of the project. They also refactored the display of page content to support better component structuring.
data-portalportalopen-databackendjekyll
choojs/choo
May 2016 - Aug 2018
:steam_locomotive::train: - sturdy 4kb frontend framework
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 35 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on enhancing the frontend framework "choo" by implementing and refactoring core routing and navigation features. Their contributions include enabling and optimizing HTML5 history and hash-based routing, as well as refactoring code for better API usage. They also introduced new features and updated examples, showing the framework's usage. The commits show the user adapting the framework to support different routing strategies.
sturdyjavascriptfrontend-frameworkframework4kb
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