Giles Rapkin
Perl Developer at Amazon
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Industry
- Internet
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Giles Rapkin's Overview
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- Perl Developer at Amazon
- Past
- Education
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- Royal Military College of Science (Cranfield University)
- Recommendations
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4 people have recommended Giles
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132 connections
- Websites
Giles Rapkin's Summary
Engineer with experience in designing, developing and supporting high availability, scalable, high performance web applications. Past experience in developing developer and backoffice tools.
Works well as part of a team (be that in one geographical location or as part of a distributed team).
Excellent written communicator. Quick learner. Good problem solver.
Technical skills include - Perl, PHP, SQL (MySQL), JavaScript, Apache, Various operating systems (Linux - mainly RHEL and Ubuntu, OS X, FreeBSD), Version control (CVS, Subversion), Continuous integration (using Hudson, gmake, PHPUnit, Perl Test::More/Test::Class/Devel::Cover).
Past experience in developing desktop applications in Java and Cocoa/Objective-C.
Specialties
Performance profiling and optimisation of web applications. Architecting and developing resilient, high performance applications. Producing technical documentation. Researching new technologies. Solving complex technical problems. Introducing continuous integration to existing projects/code bases.
Giles Rapkin's Experience
Perl Developer
Amazon
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; AMZN; Internet industry
June 2012 – Present (1 year) London
Developer
Betfair
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry
September 2011 – June 2012 (10 months) London, United Kingdom
Engineer, Sports
Yahoo!
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; yhoo; Internet industry
March 2009 – August 2011 (2 years 6 months)
Maintaining the European sports sites. Introducing CI (Hudson, unit tests/coverage, smoke tests on a separate test environment, nightly builds). Standardising development and release processes. Maintaining dev/test environments for the other developers. New feature development. Platform robustness.
Engineer, Communities
Yahoo!
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; yhoo; Internet industry
October 2006 – March 2009 (2 years 6 months)
Maintain Yahoo's European messageboards. Perform platform upgrades and integration into Yahoo's European media properties and i18n. Maintain development/integration environments for other developers in the team. Improve property robustness (redundancy/failover).
Engineer, Mobile
Yahoo!
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; yhoo; Internet industry
June 2006 – October 2006 (5 months)
Maintain Yahoo's existing European mobile sites. Develop mobile browser testing tools.
Senior Agent Developer
Kelkoo
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry
June 2004 – June 2006 (2 years 1 month)
Developing backoffice and desktop developer tools. Mentoring new team members.
Agent Developer
Kelkoo
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry
November 2002 – June 2004 (1 year 8 months)
Developing an maintaining crawlers that collect product and price information from client websites/feeds. Provide technical assistance to clients.
Giles Rapkin's Skills & Expertise
Giles Rapkin's Education
Royal Military College of Science (Cranfield University)
2.1 BEng (hons), Software Engineering
October 1999 – June 2002
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Photography, Travel, Technology, Mathematics (currently half-way through a degree in Mathematics and Statistics with the Open University), Politics, Cookery (mainly baking)
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