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

Skills: Environments

             Environment                          Period Used             Last
                                                                          Used
Unix:                                 I have been professionally hosting  Aug
Linux (Debian, SuSE, RedHat), SunOS   Debian-based servers since 1999.    2011
4, Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8, HP/UX
Internet development: HTML, CGI, SSH, 10+ years                           Aug
FTP, etc                                                                  2011
Database:                                                                 Aug
MySQL & PostgreSQL 8.x (some Oracle   10+ years                           2011
7, 8, 8i DBA, Access, Informix)

Employment

Client, Area    Related site     Period                 Summary
                                         Primarily responsible for data
                                 01/2011 cleaning and converting partner
Artfinder    Artfinder           -       datasets into our schema. Python,
London, UK                       Present Django, PostgreSQL, Google Refine.
                                         Exposure to redis, sentry, EC2,
                                         Elastic Search.
Google                           03/2011 Contributor to the mailing list and
Refine       Google Refine       -       codebase committer. Java, Python, DOS
(Open                            Present (!). Presented on Google Refine at
Source)                                  OpenTech 2011.
                                         Gmail infrastructure and oncall
Google                           06/2006 production operation. Software
Dublin,      Google, Ireland     -       development for monitoring, debugging,
Ireland                          05/2009 logging, and deployments. Python,
                                         Perl, JavaScript, PHP.
                                         Chief software architect and developer
Investor                         12/2004 then CTO designing news aggregation
Dynamics     Investor Dynamics   -       and analysis. Perl, Catalyst,
London, UK                       08/2010 DBIx::Class, PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL,
                                         XML
BBC          BBC New Media &     09/2005 Developer on team for internal
London, UK   Technology          -       publishing/programme modelling
                                 06/2006 project. Perl, Catalyst, ORM, SQLite
Urban                            03/2004 Lead software developer implementing
Tapestries   Urban Tapestries    -       Apache/mod_perl XMLRPC proxy
London, UK                       07/2004
Proboscis                        03/2004 Took on Proboscis's several sites onto
hosting      Proboscis           -       a dedicated server as my largest
London, UK                       06/2004 hosting client.
                                         Migrate LDAP services from Omnes to
Schlumberger                     02/1999 Schlumberger; build, install,
Omnes        (www.omnes.slb.com) -       security, backup for LDAP Solaris
Houston, TX                      10/1999 servers; advanced mail server
                                         development & configuration

Detail

For those interested in the technical specifics of these projects and my roles
in them, I have provided more detail.

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