Sean Legassick

Current

• Freelance Developer at datamage (Self-employed)

Past

• Software Architect at University of Western Cape
• Development Team Leader at Demon Internet

Education

• University of Sussex
• University of Oxford

Connections

29 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• datamage (includes portfolio)

Sean Legassick’s Summary

Freelance coder and software expert developing bespoke solutions to an exceptionally high standard. Products are built and delivered quickly and effectively, using proven open source software technologies. Located in Cape Town, South Africa, Sean has clients in the UK, the US and domestically.

Sean Legassick’s Specialties:

Web frameworks, User interface design, Internet protocols, Financial protocols, Project management, System administration, C++, Python, Java, Ruby, PHP, SQL, Unix

Sean Legassick’s Experience

• Freelance Developer

  datamage (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 2000 — Present (7 years 7 months)

  I specialise in web application development in fields including financial trading, retail analysis and bespoke content management systems. I do end-to-end project design, development and deployment including managing my own small hosting service, primarily for development clients. Where scope requires it I subcontract to and manage other freelance developers.

• Software Architect

  University of Western Cape

  (Computer Software industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years)

• Development Team Leader

  Demon Internet

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; THUS; Internet industry)

  June 1997 — November 2000 (3 years 6 months)

  Lead a complete user interface re-engineering of Demon's own email client (Turnpike) as a Windows shell namespace extension. Development experience included C++, MFC, COM and x86 assembly.

Sean Legassick’s Education

• University of Sussex

  BA, Artificial Intelligence, 1993 — 1996

  Final year project was natural language parsing sound synthesiser written in C++.

• University of Oxford

  BA, Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 1992 — 1993

  Left in 1993 due to interest in a more technical degree and social incompatibility with the Corpus Christi college environment. At the time I was performing well academically, having scored first-class assessments in exams.

Additional Information

Sean Legassick’s Websites:

• datamage (includes portfolio)