Rob Golding

University of Nottingham, England

Course: Computer Science BSc (Hons)
Result: First Class Honours (final mark 80%)

Web Applications Development

• Skilled Python/Django developer
• RESTful API design and implementation
• Relational database design
• Asynchronous task execution & caching (Celery, Redis, memcached)

Systems Administration

• Ubuntu Server management & automated deployment
• Application and network monitoring (Graphite, Cacti)
• VMware ESXi server installation/management
• Windows Server and Active Directory integration

Other

• Clean UK driving license held since 2007
• Good telephone skills, honed in remote support roles

Safe Computing Ltd. Web Applications Developer (Feb 2012 - present)

• Sole developer & application architect on a large & complex Django project
• Responsibility for managing infrastructure as well as developing new features & bug fixes
• Designing a robust, scalable architecture on AWS to support growing userbase and provide redundancy.
• Languages/technologies include: Python, Django, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Gunicorn, nginx, MySQL, Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis, Git and many more.

Nottingham City Council Schools Support Technician (June 2011 - Feb 2012)

• Team of approx. 12 support technicians supporting over 100 primary schools
• Developed and maintained an automated server installation program
• Create and update software deployment scripts for popular titles
• Manage the procurement of new hardware and software for schools, through contracts held with multiple suppliers

Nottingham City Council Schools MIS Migration (June - September 2010)

• Developed automated migration process for SQL Server instances (2005 to 2008)
• Oversaw the migration of over 100 instances across the city
• Completed the migration on time, with no major issues or data loss

Nottingham eLearning Centre Systems Technician (June - September 2009)

• Supported staff and students over 2 sites (WAN linked)
• Microsoft Windows/Active Directory network
• Installed a network monitoring system (Cacti) to identify and resolve issues more quickly

Net-Plus Computer Systems Network Consultant (2008 - 2011)

• Proposed, installed and maintained a new Active Directory/Exchange environment
• Implemented and tested a backup procedure for business data

TeXSupport

My latest hobby-project, TexSupport is a web-based automatic LaTeX document compiler, built to be integrated with GitHub repositories through commit hooks. It makes use of Celery for asynchronous task execution, with RabbitMQ as a message broker.

django-radius

django-radius is a RADIUS authentication backend for Django. It also allows an application to authenticate to a specific RADIUS server, depending on the credentials supplied. The code is fully documented, and designed to be extended for use in cloud applications.

backtrac

Backtrac is a real-time backup system that works like version control for an entire file system. The entire system is implemented in pure Python, using Twisted for the client/server and Django for the web interface.

I developed backtrac for my 3rd-year project at university, and it's probably the biggest piece of software I have produced. I chose to make the source code available from the beginning, and it is licensed under the GPL.