Matthew Russell

Current

• Software Developer at Sanoodi Ltd

Past

• Software Developer at SecureTrading
• Software Developer at Cmed
• Director/Software Developer at Omnicea

• Software Developer at SecureTrading

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Education

• University of Wales, Aberystwyth

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company

Matthew Russell’s Summary

Application developer and designer, currently producing a web/GIS application with django-gis, PostGIS and openlayers for a new startup.

I'm currently interested in Python3.0, Django, ikarus scheme, Objective-C/PyObjC MacOSX development and geographic information systems (GIS).

I'm jointly responsible for the implementation and maintainence of GeoJSON Python library (subproject of the PCL, open source license).

Previously:
- Team development of custom appliance (distributed system) for clinical research orgnaisation. Wrote Python C extension for biometric interface, gained experience with GTK+, OpenLDAP , Pyro.

- Extreme programming environment for a Payment service provider (ecommerce transactions consumer -> acquirer, distributed system)
- Python XML processing, database transaction processing, security.
- Java client development, XML processing, ssl communications.
- javascript/html interfaces
- Developed Zope2 account management application.

- Developed machine learning application for dissertation (Artifical Immune System), DNA data.
- iCal clone in Java (university project leader)

- content management systems, proprietary and open source.
- Zope(2/3), typo3 (php), Silknet (ASP/COM)
- quite enough experience with ASP, MS IIS, SQL server/MS access (98/99)

Matthew Russell’s Specialties:

* Python, Python C Extensions
* distributed systems concepts and application
* django, trac/svn, emacs
* Javascirpt, JSON, mootools, OpenLayers, GeoJSON
• Platforms: GNU/Linux, OSX (user, some sysadmin)

Matthew Russell’s Experience

• Software Developer

  Sanoodi Ltd

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

  A startup providing a community site centered around outdoor activities. Mapping and geo location services for activity routes.
  Python/Javascript work, using Django PostGIS, openlayers, geojson.
  MySQL to postgresql/PostGIS data migration.

• Software Developer

  SecureTrading

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2006 — April 2007 (5 months)

• Software Developer

  Cmed

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  December 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 1 month)

  Agile development team member.
  Python as the primary language;
  Appliance product - a debian GNU/Linux system runing the custom application developed with GTK+, openldap, postgresql, and pyro.
  Development of custom interface between IBM thinkpad drivers for biometric fingerprint scanning with a Python C extension.

• Director/Software Developer

  Omnicea

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  June 2005 — November 2005 (6 months)

• Software Developer

  SecureTrading

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 1999 — August 2003 (3 years 11 months)

  Python/MySQL/Java/javascript development on backend processing system for consumer e-commerce transactions.
  Working to APACS standards,

Matthew Russell’s Education

• University of Wales, Aberystwyth

  Computer Science 2003 — 2005

  Participated in student nationals competition in Newqay 2004

  Activities and Societies:

  Surf club

Additional Information

Matthew Russell’s Websites:

• My Company

Matthew Russell’s Interests:

Python, Dajngo, Pylons, SQLAlchemy, Mootools, JQuery java, scheme, emacs Surfing

Matthew Russell’s Groups:

•    Python Community
•    Django
•    Emacs

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