Sean Legassick

Sean Legassick

Independent Software Developer

London, United Kingdom

Current
  • CTO at MobGeo
  • Software Developer at datamage
Past
  • Software Architect at University of Western Cape
  • Developer at Apache Software Foundation
  • Development Team Leader at Demon Internet
Education
  • University of Sussex
  • University of Oxford
Connections
52 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

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 London, UK, Sean has clients in the UK, the US and domestically.

Sean Legassick’s Specialties:

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


Sean Legassick’s Experience

  • CTO

    MobGeo

    (Wireless industry)

    June 2007Present (2 years 2 months)

    Responsible for our location-aware mobile and online advertising platform.

  • Software Developer

    datamage

    (Computer Software industry)

    November 2000Present (8 years 9 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)

    20022004 (2 years)

    Designed the software architecture of the Chisimba framework and e-learning platform, an open source project built using PHP.

  • Developer

    Apache Software Foundation

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

    19992002 (3 years)

    Committer and active developer on the Apache Turbine, Apache Tomcat and Apache Velocity projects.

  • Development Team Leader

    Demon Internet

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

    June 1997November 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 , 19931996

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

  • University of Oxford

    BA , Politics, Philosophy and Economics , 19921993

    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.


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