Paul MakepeaceBA, MA Maths, Computer Science, Electronic
Engineering
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| Language | Period Used | Last Used |
|---|---|---|
| Ruby (1.8-2.0), Rails (3.1, 3.2, 4.0) | 1.5 year | Dec 2024 |
| Perl (4.036 - 5.10.1) | 10+ years | Dec 2024 |
| Python | 4 years | Dec 2024 |
| JavaScript | 6 years | Dec 2024 |
| C | 3 years | 2008 |
| HTML (v2.0 - 4.01 & XHTML 1.0 + CSS2) |
10+ years | Dec 2024 |
| SQL (see below) | 10+ years | Dec 2024 |
| Unix tools: sh, sed, awk, etc | 10+ years | Dec 2024 |
| Java | 1 year | May 2011 |
| ML, Prolog, C++ | Hobby | May 1995 |
| Environment | Period Used | Last Used |
|---|---|---|
| Unix: Linux (Debian, SuSE, RedHat), Solaris |
I have been professionally hosting Debian-based servers since 1999. | Dec 2024 |
| Internet development: HTML5, JavaScript, SSH, etc | 10+ years | Dec 2024 |
| Database: MySQL & PostgreSQL |
10+ years | Dec 2024 |
| Client, Area | Related site | Period | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple Cupertino, US |
Apple | 04/2013 - present |
Stress rack automation infrastructure in Silicon Engineering Group. |
| Badger & BountySource San Francisco, US |
Badger & BountySource | 02/2012 - 04/2013 |
Product design, direction. Full stack from Linux kernel tweaking, automated deployment with Puppet, through Ruby, Rails to a fully JavaScript frontend. |
| Artfinder London, UK |
Artfinder | 01/2011 - 08/2011 |
Primarily responsible for data cleaning and converting partner datasets into our schema. Python, Django, PostgreSQL, OpenRefine. Exposure to redis, sentry, EC2, Elastic Search. |
| Open Refine (née OpenRefine; Open Source) |
OpenRefine | 03/2011 - Present |
Contributor to the mailing list and codebase committer. Java, Python, DOS(!). Presented on OpenRefine at OpenTech 2011. |
| Google Dublin, Ireland |
Google, Ireland | 06/2006 - 05/2009 |
Gmail infrastructure and oncall production operation. Software development for monitoring, debugging, logging, and deployments. Python, Perl, JavaScript, PHP. |
| Investor Dynamics London, UK |
Investor Dynamics | 12/2004 - 08/2010 |
Chief software architect and developer then CTO designing news aggregation and analysis. Perl, Catalyst, DBIx::Class, PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, XML |
| BBC London, UK |
BBC New Media & Technology | 09/2005 - 06/2006 |
Developer on team for internal publishing/programme modelling project. Perl, Catalyst, ORM, SQLite |
| Urban Tapestries London, UK |
Urban Tapestries | 03/2004 - 07/2004 |
Lead software developer implementing Apache/mod_perl XMLRPC proxy |
| Proboscis hosting London, UK |
Proboscis | 03/2004 - 06/2004 |
Took on Proboscis's several sites onto a dedicated server as my largest hosting client. |
| Schlumberger Omnes Houston, TX |
(www.omnes.slb.com) | 02/1999 - 10/1999 |
Migrate LDAP services from Omnes to Schlumberger; build, install, security, backup for LDAP Solaris servers; advanced mail server development & configuration |
For those interested in the technical specifics of these projects and my roles in them, I have provided more detail.
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