Stuart Herbert
Founder - Engineering & Management at Ten Principles Tai Chi
Pontypridd, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStuart Herbert is an experienced software leader and founder with over 17 years in professional roles and more than two decades designing, delivering and assuring complex systems. As Owner & Chief Software Archaeologist at Ganbaro Digital he specialises in improving software quality for PHP-based projects and maintains Storyplayer, an open-source test automation tool born from testing large-scale Big Data platforms. He has led engineering teams, set release processes and driven platform QA at companies like DataSift, Xavier Analytics and Gradwell, combining hands-on coding with people and process leadership. A long-time open-source contributor and former Gentoo developer, Stuart brings deep systems and legacy-code expertise—he has even maintained and ported historic batch systems across dozens of UNIX variants. Based in Pontypridd, Wales, he balances technical work with community education as a conference speaker, co-author and volunteer, and uniquely teaches Tai Chi, applying the same discipline and pedagogy to mentorship and engineering practice.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng, Software Engineering, B.Eng, Software Engineering at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (96)
bash10
grep10
tee10
automation10
sed10
cut10
wc10
sublime-text10
hubflow10
git10
xargs10
jq10
script10
uniq10
cat10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
stuartherbert/mf
Feb 2009 - Apr 2010
Contributions:91 commits in 1 year 2 months
stuartherbert/imprint-css
Nov 2023 - Jan 2026
Beautiful typography plugin for TailwindCSS
Contributions:23 PRs, 96 pushes, 26 branches in 2 years 2 months
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