William Christian

🐍 Python Developer

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👨‍💻 Experience

Senior Developer @ Oval (2022 - Present)
Good habits pay off

• 💡 Developing back-end components for a wealth-tech mobile app
• 💪 Worked in a small, cross-functional team creating new features and troubleshooting customer support tickets
• ✨ Some recent highlights:
  • Successfully developed and launched crypto trading and re-launched customer onboarding
    • ~3000 Users onboarded in the first month with ~1000 of them having an open crypto position
  • Updated marketing events system to a ‘milestones’ system using Rudderstack and Braze
    • Allowed finer grained analysis of users and the use of Metabase for marketing purposes
    • Laid the groundwork for a “year in review” system inspired by Spotify
  • Transitioned from ETF to CFD trading system, building new backend components to support these new assets
• Technologies used: Python, Celery, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, Kubernetes, Docker, Redis, Pyramid, AWS

Software Engineer @ Foundry (2018 - 2022)
Pioneering software for creative industries

• 🔧 Built product features in Python and C++
• 🐛 Many, many bug fixes
• ☝️ Worked with Product and DevOps teams to develop tools that increase productivity
• ✨ Some recent highlights:
  • Node graph updates for Mari
    • Highly requested feature that reduced the need for the third party extension packs
    • features for de-cluttering and re-organising complex node graph layouts
  • Created cross-product build distribution system reducing QA downtime which was then integrated into our CI
  • Replaced in-house testing suite with system that runs pytest inside our apps
  • Replaced existing release-note and customer-communication generation scripts
    • From ~2000 lines of code to ~500 with the same functionality 😎
    • No longer required a local check-out of product code
    • Installed via pip rather than a multistage install process
  • Flask app for managing GitLab instance with webhooks and rest APIs
• Technologies used: Python, C++, Flask, Qt, PySide, Gitlab / Gitlab CI, Artifactory, TargetProcess, Jenkins, REST APIs

QA Engineer @ Foundry (2017 - 2018)
Pioneering software for creative industries

• 🧪 Designed, developed and maintained automated test cases using Python and an in-house testing suite
• 📈 Championed TDD and pushed for Dev involvement in automated test design
• 🏅 Automation Owner during transition to Agile and TDD
  
  

📌 On The Side

• 🍪 cookiecutter-python
  • A Cookiecutter template for python packages
• daub
  • opinionated markdown to pdf renderer
• godot-datetime
  • DateTime libarary for Godot
• godot-number-to-words
  • Convert numbers to words in Godot
• katabasis
  • Game developed in UE4, Blueprint and C++
  • PC Gamer’s Best Free Games of the Week 09/07/2017
  • NCCA Best Interactive Artefact Award (joint) 2017
• Working on more games with a focus on simulation and emergent gameplay developed in Godot

👨‍🎓 Education

BA (Hons) First Class Computer Visualisation and Animation
Bournemouth University, NCCA (2014 - 2017)