David Precious

Current

Perl developer at CPAN
Perl Developer at UK2

Past

Senior Web Developer at PIPEX Internet Ltd

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David Precious’s Summary

Highly experienced in Perl development (including Object-Orientated development, code re-use, coding best practices, secure coding), along with SQL (MySQL and PostgreSQL), Linux sysadmin, Apache setup + configuration, standards-compliant HTML + CSS, Javascript (inc AJAX, JSON etc).

Able to work calmly under pressure, using own initiative and managing my own time.

Keen user of Open Source software. I believe in trying to give back to the Open Source community where possible, and have contributed patches and changes to existing software, and contributed a number of Perl modules to CPAN.

My current CPAN distributions can be found at:
http://search.cpan.org/~bigpresh/
or see http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/coding/
My CPAN test results (a vague metric of code quality) are:
http://cpants.perl.org/author/BIGPRESH/

I also have skills in PHP development, including object-oriented coding etc, although it has to be said Perl is my language of choice these days.

David Precious’s Specialties:

Perl, PHP, object-orientation, coding to best practices, SQL, Javascript, standards-compliant HTML/XHTML/DHTML, CSS, Linux sysadmin (inc Debian, Slackware, Arch), Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Perl regular expressions, Perl CPAN modules (inc CGI, DBI, Template::Toolkit, HTML::Template, LWP, WWW::Mechanize etc), Perl OO, professional Perl development, Wordpress.

Broad experience in the ISP (broadband/dialup) and hosting (web hosting / domain registration / server hosting) markets.

David Precious’s Experience

Perl developer

CPAN

(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2006 — Present (2 years 10 months)

Releasing several open-sourced Perl modules to CPAN.

See http://cpants.perl.org/author/BIGPRESH and http://search.cpan.org/~bigpresh/
Perl Developer

UK2

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

July 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

Senior Perl developer for UK2, a leading UK web hosting company. Working within a small development team, working on our order system and automated provisioning systems, and web front ends (e.g. customer control panels etc). Working primarily with Perl (including DBI and HTML::Template), Apache, MySQL etc. Also some work in PHP and integrating other software solutions including Pinnacle Cart, and random system administration / shell scripting etc where required.

We follow Perl Best Practices, and strive for quality, reliable and reusable code.

I'm also a member of our Abuse Team, dealing with abuse-related issues.
Senior Web Developer

PIPEX Internet Ltd

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

October 1999 — July 2006 (6 years 10 months)

Senior Web Developer for PIPEX. Worked for the company when it was still small and based in Stevenage, by the time I left it was much bigger, having been sold to GX Networks, and buying other businesses including Host Europe and Nildram.

Responsibilities included PHP development and maintenance of the company websites, order processes etc. Much of the code was mission-critical stuff handling customer orders (including credit card details etc) so had to be secure, efficient and well-tested. Also performed sysadmin on the various web servers, and produced internal reporting systems.