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Tom Whittington

Worked on the DFE-Digital/check-an-early-years-qualification repository, delivering four features and resolving a key bug over three months. Enhanced the user interface by refining feedback components and qualification detail layouts, with particular attention to mobile responsiveness and accessibility. Improved date input validation and exception handling to provide clearer, actionable error messages for users. Expanded navigation options by introducing an alternate qualification search URL and updated related tests for consistency. Overhauled the end-to-end test suite using Playwright and TypeScript, restructuring tests for maintainability and updating CI processes. Demonstrated strong skills in ASP.NET Core, C#, and test automation throughout the project.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

80%Features

Repository Contributions

16Total
Bugs
1
Commits
16
Features
4
Lines of code
1,921
Activity Months3

Your Network

8 people

Work History

May 2025

9 Commits • 1 Features

May 1, 2025

Concise monthly summary for May 2025 focusing on the DFE-Digital check-an-early-years-qualification project. Highlights include a major overhaul of the End-to-End (E2E) test suite, targeted fixes to unit tests to preserve navigation integrity, and improvements to test infrastructure, CI, and documentation that collectively reduce regression risk and accelerate release readiness.

April 2025

2 Commits • 1 Features

Apr 1, 2025

April 2025 monthly summary for DFE-Digital/check-an-early-years-qualification focused on expanding the qualification search entry points, improving accessibility, and validating changes through updated tests.

March 2025

5 Commits • 2 Features

Mar 1, 2025

March 2025 performance summary for DFE-Digital/check-an-early-years-qualification. Key features delivered: UI polish for the Feedback component and the qualification details page, with mobile padding fixes and added bottom padding to improve visual spacing across devices; date validation enhancements delivering granular, actionable error messages and standardized exception handling to guide users when correcting input mistakes. Major bugs fixed: resolved a date validation bug, introduced a dedicated exception to aid future troubleshooting, and split date banner errors to allow independent links to work correctly. Overall impact: improved user experience and guidance across devices, more robust input validation and error handling, and better maintainability through clearer commits. Technologies/skills demonstrated: front-end UI polish and responsive design, robust input validation and exception handling, and incremental, traceable commits.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness95.6%
Maintainability96.2%
Architecture90.0%
Performance91.2%
AI Usage20.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

C#JavaScriptMarkdownTypeScriptYAMLcshtmlcss

Technical Skills

ASP.NET CoreBackend DevelopmentC#CI/CDCSSCode OrganizationEnd-to-End TestingEnd-to-end testingException HandlingFront End DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentHTMLJavaScriptPlaywrightRefactoring

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

DFE-Digital/check-an-early-years-qualification

Mar 2025 May 2025
3 Months active

Languages Used

C#cshtmlcssJavaScriptTypeScriptMarkdownYAML

Technical Skills

ASP.NET CoreBackend DevelopmentC#CSSException HandlingFront End Development