Patrick Rose
Head Of Engineering at The Skills Network
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Rose is a hands-on engineering leader with 12 years’ experience building and operating web platforms, currently serving as Head of Engineering at The Skills Network. He progressed from PHP and Zend-based web development to leading teams and product delivery, having supported long-running projects like HealthJobsUk and maintained open-source Laravel tooling. Patrick combines technical ownership with community-building—he founded and ran a university board-game society and writes for gaming and how-to outlets, and even records folk music. Colleagues know him for pragmatic backend problem-solving, merging and refactoring code to keep integrations healthy, and for shipping reliable CMS and marketplace features. Based in Sheffield, he brings a practical full-stack perspective rooted in an MComp in Computer Science with Mathematics and a taste for collaborative, creative projects.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MComp, Computer Science with Mathematics, MComp, Computer Science with Mathematics at The University of Sheffield
English
Github Skills (6)
php10
bootstrapper10
conflict-resolution10
laravel-mix9
laravel9
testing7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
patricktalmadge/bootstrapper
Sep 2013 - Dec 2020
Laravel Twitter Bootstrap Bundle
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 293 commits, 26 PRs in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:The user, Marvin Schröder, primarily contributed to the `Bootstrapper` project by merging and resolving conflicts within the codebase. The commits show interactions with core files within the `src/Bootstrapper` directory. The user fixed tests for a Form module and did additional refactoring. These actions suggest the user was involved in maintaining the project's internal functionality and resolving integration issues with other developers.
bootstraplaraveltwitter-bootstrap
PatrickRose/advent-of-code
Dec 2015 - Jan 2026
Contributions:14 PRs, 257 pushes, 9 branches in 10 years 2 months
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