Adam Bannister
Backend Developer at Prorenata AB
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolAdam Bannister is a backend developer based in Stockholm with 11 years of experience building data-driven microservices and pipelines using Python, PostgreSQL, Kafka and modern JavaScript frameworks. He has led backend teams and shipped production systems across startups and research institutes, including work on scalable author disambiguation and linked-data pipelines at a Leibniz institute. An active contributor to aiohttp, he’s improved type hinting and form-data handling in a prominent asyncio HTTP framework, demonstrating attention to correctness and developer ergonomics. Comfortable across languages from Clojure to JavaScript, he blends practical backend engineering with data mining and visualization skills. Collected academic training in GIS and geography informs his affinity for structured data and spatial reasoning. Colleagues describe him as a curious problem-solver who moves smoothly between research-grade data challenges and pragmatic product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PgDip, Geographic Information Science and Cartography, PgDip, Geographic Information Science and Cartography at University of UlsterBachelor of Arts (BA), Geography and Music with a minor in Maths, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Geography and Music with a minor in Maths at National University of Ireland, Maynooth
English, German, Swedish
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Github Skills (9)
aiohttp10
typehinting10
type-checking10
python10
asyncio10
testing9
http9
http-server8
http-client8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aio-libs/aiohttp
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
Asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 11 PRs, 18 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on improving type hinting and data processing within the aiohttp framework. They added more type annotations to loose cookies, addressing type-related issues and enhancing code clarity. Additionally, the user updated the handling of form data, ensuring proper processing and added a test case for it. The user also made adjustments to the documentation, replacing attribute names for better clarity.
pythonasynchronousasynciohttp-clientclient-server
AtomsForPeace/gpwahlomat
Mar 2016 - Sep 2019
Contributions:36 commits, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 3 years 7 months
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