Independent Software Developer
London, United Kingdom
- Current
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- CTO at MobGeo
- Software Developer at datamage
- Past
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- Software Architect at University of Western Cape
- Developer at Apache Software Foundation
- Development Team Leader at Demon Internet
- Education
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- University of Sussex
- University of Oxford
- Connections
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- 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
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CTO
MobGeo
(Wireless industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Responsible for our location-aware mobile and online advertising platform.
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Software Developer
datamage
(Computer Software industry)
November 2000 — Present (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.
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Software Architect
University of Western Cape
(Computer Software industry)
2002 — 2004 (2 years)
Designed the software architecture of the Chisimba framework and e-learning platform, an open source project built using PHP.
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Developer
Apache Software Foundation
(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
1999 — 2002 (3 years)
Committer and active developer on the Apache Turbine, Apache Tomcat and Apache Velocity projects.
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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
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University of Sussex
BA , Artificial Intelligence , 1993 — 1996
Final year project was natural language parsing sound synthesiser written in C++.
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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.
