Thibaud Colas
Volunteer at Django Software Foundation
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolThibaud Colas is a seasoned technical lead and web engineer with 13 years of experience blending front-end craftsmanship and back-end reliability across open-source and product teams. Based in Cambridge, he currently serves as President of the Django Software Foundation, sits on its board, and contributes to the Wagtail core while leading product work at Torchbox. He has a strong track record improving UI, accessibility, and developer experience—applying Tailwind theming, refining rich-text components, and adding robust unit tests for popular libraries like smooth-scroll. Comfortable across the full stack, he has shipped features for djangoproject.com, maintained django-recaptcha, and produced tooling to parse and expose project documentation as structured APIs. Passionate about accessibility, AI, and climate action, he pairs technical rigor with community stewardship and mentoring. Notably, his contributions often focus on quality and maintainability—cleaning styles, improving tests, and modernizing code for long-term project health.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Université Montpellier 2
French, English, french sign language, Finnish
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Github Skills (39)
accessibility10
smooth-scrolling10
unit-testing10
json10
site-design10
javascript10
python10
apidoc10
django10
testing10
css10
django-cms10
google-recaptcha10
wagtail10
api10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
wagtail/wagtail
Jun 2016 - Jan 2023
A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1075 reviews, 643 commits, 935 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Thibaud primarily contributed to the Wagtail CMS's front-end, with commits focusing on UI component enhancements and styling improvements. Their work involved updating the design system with Tailwind CSS, particularly focusing on theming and responsiveness. Key changes included applying new styling to the admin interface, creating a new component for the rich text editor, and fixing UI issues for better accessibility.
content-management-systemdjangopythoncmswagtail
django-recaptcha/django-recaptcha
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Django reCAPTCHA form field/widget integration app.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 13 commits, 21 PRs in 3 days
Contributions summary:Thibaud primarily contributed to the maintenance and improvement of the django-recaptcha application. Their work involved updating documentation, fixing issues related to browser support, and refactoring code with tools like Black, isort, and pyupgrade. They also addressed CI/CD related aspects by simplifying setup and fixing badges. These changes indicate a focus on code quality, compatibility, and project maintainability.
djangoform-fieldsrecaptchapythonrecaptchav2
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