Carlton Gibson
Chief Technology Officer at Paths
Palafrugell, Catalonia, Spain
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Carlton Gibson is a Chief Technology Officer with 12 years of hands-on engineering and open-source leadership, currently driving product and engineering at Paths, a platform for impact measurement. A long-time Django core contributor and maintainer—best known for work on asgiref, Channels, Daphne and django-filter—he blends deep backend expertise with release management and CI/CD modernization. He’s resolved security and thread-safety issues in Django, added ASGI and Redis sentinel support across projects, and kept major libraries compatible with evolving Python releases. Carlton pairs pragmatic maintenance (dependency updates, test-suite improvements) with feature work like donation verification and webhook handling for djangoproject.com. Based in Catalonia, he brings a rare combination of CTO-level strategic leadership and meticulous open-source craftsmanship—down to fixing docs and typos to improve developer experience.
13 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (64)
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Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
django/channels
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
Developer-friendly asynchrony for Django
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:192 reviews, 111 commits, 325 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Carlton contributed to the Channels project by implementing core features and maintaining the codebase. Their work included removing unused code, releasing new versions (2.2, 2.3, 2.3.1, 2.4, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 4.0, 4.1), and addressing deprecation warnings. They also updated the project's dependencies and documentation to align with new Django versions, demonstrating a focus on project maintenance and compatibility. Furthermore, they refactored the codebase for improved functionality.
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carltongibson/django-filter
Mar 2016 - Jun 2022
A generic system for filtering Django QuerySets based on user selections
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 releases, 141 reviews, 128 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Carlton primarily contributed to the django-filter project by preparing for and releasing new versions. Their work involved updating the version numbers in multiple files, including `setup.py`, `docs/conf.py`, and `django_filters/__init__.py`. They also modified the `CHANGES.rst` file to document the changes in each release. Additionally, the user made adjustments to the codebase, refactoring calls and improving schema generation.
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