Ian Brierley
Systems Engineer at Workcircle
Greater Brighton and Hove Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIan Brierley is a seasoned systems engineer with over 12 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining Linux-based services and networked systems, and a long career background in telecom and enterprise networking. Primarily a Perl programmer at Workcircle, he complements backend skills with front-end work in JavaScript, React, Vue and SVG, and has contributed performance and UX fixes to prominent open-source projects like the widely used flutter_map and SVG-Edit. His experience spans Cisco, Newbridge and Motorola Vanguard platforms and operational tooling such as HP-UX OpenView, reflecting deep practical knowledge of datacomms and systems monitoring. Based in the Greater Brighton area and a University of Sussex computer science graduate, he blends low-level network engineering instincts with modern web and mobile UI contributions—often focusing on robustness and cross-platform behaviour that isn’t immediately obvious from job titles alone.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of SussexBranston
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
flutter-apps10
flutter-map10
dom-manipulation10
svg10
maps10
flutter-game10
c-library10
dart10
common-library10
flutter10
animation9
jquery9
canvas9
css9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
fleaflet/flutter_map
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Flutter's №1 non-commercially aimed map client: it's easy-to-use, versatile, vendor-free, fully cross-platform, and 100% pure-Flutter
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:75 reviews, 18 commits, 48 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to the Flutter map library by implementing new features and fixing existing issues related to map rendering and user interaction. They added features like marker position caching for performance improvements and the `tileBounds` parameter for restricting tile loading. Several commits focused on fixing bugs, such as those related to double-click interactions and initial bounds display, demonstrating a focus on improving the user experience.
flutterflutter-map
SVG-Edit/svgedit
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Powerful SVG-Editor for your browser
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily focused on enhancing the SVG-Edit project's path editing capabilities, debugging and optimizing the existing path tool. They implemented fixes to address issues related to DOM manipulation and path segment errors, ensuring better cross-browser compatibility. Furthermore, the user addressed formatting and indentation inconsistencies within the codebase. Additionally, they implemented improvements for importing SVG files, ensuring proper element selection.
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