Paul Makepeace

BA, MA Maths, Computer Science, Electronic Engineering
Resident in London, UK
Phone: [on request]
Email: jobs­@­paulm.com
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Education

Cambridge University: MA Maths, Computer Science, EIST (Electronic and Information Systems)

Skills: Programming Languages

Language Period Used Last Used
Perl (4.036 - 5.10.0) 10+ years Feb 2012
Python 4 years Feb 2012
JavaScript 5 years Feb 2012
C 3 years 2008
HTML (v2.0 - 4.01
& XHTML 1.0 + CSS2)
10+ years Feb 2012
SQL (see below) 10+ years Feb 2012
Unix tools: sh, sed, awk, etc 10+ years Feb 2012
Java 1 year May 2011
ML, Prolog, C++ Hobby May 1995

Skills: Environments

Environment Period Used Last Used
Unix:
Linux (Debian, SuSE, RedHat), SunOS 4, Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8, HP/UX
I have been professionally hosting Debian-based servers since 1999. Feb 2012
Internet development: HTML, CGI, SSH, FTP, etc 10+ years Feb 2012
Database:
MySQL & PostgreSQL 8.x (some Oracle 7, 8, 8i DBA, Access, Informix)
10+ years Feb 2012

Employment

Client, Area Related site Period Summary
Artfinder
London, UK
Artfinder 01/2011 -
08/2011
Primarily responsible for data cleaning and converting partner datasets into our schema. Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Google Refine. Exposure to redis, sentry, EC2, Elastic Search.
Google Refine
(Open Source)
Google Refine 03/2011 -
Present
Contributor to the mailing list and codebase committer. Java, Python, DOS(!). Presented on Google Refine 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

Detail

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