Barnaby Keene
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorBarnaby Keene is a London-based Lead Software Engineer with more than 12 years of experience delivering full-stack, front-end, and back-end solutions across startups and open-source projects. He currently leads at Ferry as Lead Software Engineer while building Storyden, an open-source AI-powered social content management system he founded in 2023. A multidisciplinary creator known as southclaws, he blends design, storytelling and code to solve complex problems and ship robust software. In open-source, he contributed to goreleaser by refactoring the GitHub client CreateFile function and enhancing manifest generation and testing, and to openmultiplayer/web by improving the UI and API, wiki features, language support, and admin-enabled profiles. Barnaby also founded Novaura, a creative studio, and has invested in early-stage ventures such as Odin and Anduril, demonstrating a rare mix of technical depth and entrepreneurial ambition. He holds a Computer Science degree from Nottingham Trent University, with additional studies at Confetti ICT, underlining a solid formal foundation for his diverse work.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (31)
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javascript10
user-interface10
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next-js10
go10
javascripts10
api10
golang10
release-automation10
github-action-workflow10
github-actions-workflow10
react10
css9
html9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
openmultiplayer/web
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
The open.mp web services monorepo. Homepage, documentation, server index, and more! All in one place.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:240 reviews, 1185 commits, 402 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Barnaby focused on developing the front-end user interface and back-end API functionality for the open.mp web services monorepo. Their contributions included implementing new features for the wiki, such as category pages, tag pages, and full-text search. They also made improvements to the website's layout, added language selection, and implemented an account-linking and profile page with admin capabilities.
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goreleaser/goreleaser
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
Release engineering, simplified
Role in this project:Back-end & Automation Engineer
Back-end & Automation EngineerContributions:16 commits, 8 PRs, 18 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Barnaby contributed to the `goreleaser/goreleaser` project by refactoring and extending functionality related to the `CreateFile` function within the GitHub client, enabling more generic use cases. They implemented unit tests for Scoop manifests and enhanced the Scoop integration by adding manifest generation support. Additionally, the user addressed branching logic in the GitHub client to prevent silent failures.
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