Arfon Smith

Current

• Senior Software Developer at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
• Partner at Nervous Web Services

Past

• Developer at Impact IM Ltd

Education

• University of Nottingham
• The University of Sheffield

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Industry

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Websites

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Arfon Smith’s Summary

I'm a software developer for The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK mostly creating open source tools to aid the new DNA sequencing technologies used here. We mostly use Ruby on Rails as the majority of the new applications are web-based.

Arfon Smith’s Specialties:

Ruby on Rails, Agile software development, testing, version control, XML, XHTML, CSS, Photoshop, MySQL, TDD, BDD

Arfon Smith’s Experience

• Senior Software Developer

  Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

  (Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)

  2007 — Present (1 year)

• Partner

  Nervous Web Services

  (Internet industry)

  2006 — Present (2 years)

• Developer

  Impact IM Ltd

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

  June 2007 — December 2007 (7 months)

Arfon Smith’s Education

• University of Nottingham

  PhD, Molecular Astrophysics, 2002 — 2006

• The University of Sheffield

  BSc Hons, Chemistry, 1998 — 2001

Additional Information

Arfon Smith’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Portfolio

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