Dale Potter
Python Developer (Contract) - Uk Central Government Department @Cabinet Office
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WORK HISTORY
Python Developer (Contract) - Uk Central Government Department @Cabinet Office
Building new organisation-wide Intranet using Django/Wagtail Implementation of bespoke CMS functionality using Python, SCSS & JS Assisted with devops tasks using AWS (ECS, CodeBuild, ECR, EC2, RDS, S3) Use of Terraform to manage infrastructure Performed QA of other developers tickets, including edge-case testing Led migration of data from legacy Wordpress-based system into new database Supported successful progression through the Gov.UK Service AssessmentTechnologies: Python, SCSS, JS Frameworks: Django, Wagtail Databases: PostgreSQL, AWS RDS Tests: Unittest, pytest-django Devops: AWS (ECS, CodeBuild, ECR, EC2, S3), Terraform Source control: Git/Github
EDUCATION
University of Exeter
BA (1st class Hons) Business Economics with European Study, (Economics, Business, Marketing, French)
Université Pierre Mendès-France
Erasmus Student Exchange, Economics, French
SKILLS
ABOUT DALE POTTER
Python – Over 8 years experience, with emphasis on clear, succinct and well documented code. Significant use of popular libraries Django, Flask, Pandas, Pytest, SQLAlchemy, Wagtail and more. TDD evangelist – Tests or it didn’t happen! PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite and NoSQL – Good knowledge of database design HTML5, CSS, Javascript – Very good frontend knowledge AWS, Azure and GCP – Good knowledge of popular cloud platforms Bootstrap, Foundation and Gov.UK Design System – implemented UI frameworks on many projects Jinja and Liquid – Excellent knowledge of templating engines Web scraping – Wide experience for personal and professional projects, including ongoing maintenance including use of Beautiful Soup, lxml, Requests and Scrapy. Docker and Docker Compose – Intermediate knowledge, including troubleshooting Ansible and Salt – Good knowledge of configuration management tools (including Ansible Molecule test framework) GitHub Actions, Travis and Jenkins – Implemented many CI/CD pipelines Git – Excellent knowledge, including much use of GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket Unix – Comfortable on the command line, including use of Ubuntu as my day-to-day OS JSON, XML and YAML – Much experience, including XSLT Agile – Worked in sprint and kanban workflows Project management – Overseen many technical and non-technical projects Strong \'can-do\' attitude – Creative approach to problem-solving French – Very good level (spoken and written) Recent speaker at PyConUK (building an LCD train departure board using open data). Bristol Tech4Good (Open data and aid effectiveness) and Bristol Python meetup groups (creating and publishing python libraries). d••••••••@gmail.com 07•••••••07
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