Zach Inglis
Creative Director
Greater Cardiff Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Inglis is a Creative Director and designer-developer with 18 years of experience leading digital product and event efforts from the Greater Cardiff Area. He combines hands-on Ruby on Rails backend work—refactoring models and improving code quality on projects like the enki blogging app—with high-level creative leadership at Superhero Studios, London Made and Jumpstarter. A co-organiser and long-time designer for Rails Rumble and founder of HybridConf, he blends community-building and event curation with product design. Zach has edited technical books such as Mindful Design and Pro Javascript Development, showing a rare mix of practical coding chops and thoughtful design authorship. Comfortable switching between CAD, front-end design and backend architecture, he’s known for bringing polish and clarity to both codebases and brand experiences. Offbeat personal touches—like a GitHub bio that simply says “I like turtles”—underscore a warm, creative personality behind his professional rigor.
18 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
IT, IT at Exeter College, EnglandWoodroffe SchoolCarl Sandburg College
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Github Skills (15)
activerecord10
modeler10
rails10
modello10
ruby-on-rails10
modeling10
rspec8
wsdl6
devise6
javascript6
jquery6
tailwindcss6
ruby6
soap6
git5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
xaviershay/enki
Dec 2008 - Dec 2008
A Ruby on Rails blogging app for the fashionable developer. It's better than Mephisto or SimpleLog
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 8 days
Contributions summary:Zach primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Ruby on Rails blogging application, "enki." They refactored and cleaned up the `Comment` and `Post` models, including method refactoring, validating fields, and organizing methods. The user also updated the application's layout and improved code style across various model files.
ruby-on-railsrailsrubybloggingruby-on
zachinglis/holler
Jun 2008 - Apr 2009
Contributions:63 commits in 9 months
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