Aidan Skinner
Senior Software Engineer at UK Health Security Agency
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAidan Skinner is a Senior Software Engineer with 18 years’ experience building systems from Linux-based operating systems and package management to web platforms for startups, agencies and financial services. He blends hands-on backend development—contributing to projects like the PackageKit Python wrapper—with leadership roles including CTO, lead engineer and development team lead, pairing production support and recruitment with delivery. Comfortable across systems management, message queues and consumer-facing sites, he has repeatedly driven process improvements toward agile ways of working. Based in Glasgow, he also brings formal study in systems thinking and a track record of refactoring APIs and reducing duplication to improve long-term maintainability.
18 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Systems Thinking in Practice, Systems Thinking in Practice at The Open University
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Github Skills (10)
package-manager10
python10
dbus10
api-design9
ant9
tomcat9
architecture8
architectures8
spring-mvc6
java6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
PackageKit/PackageKit
Jul 2008 - Jan 2009
A D-Bus abstraction layer that allows the user to manage packages in a secure way using a cross-distro, cross-architecture API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Aidan primarily contributed to the Python-based PackageKit wrapper, adding new functionalities such as `GetUpdates`, `UpdateSystem` methods and refactoring existing code to return data as dictionaries instead of tuples. They also introduced generic wrapper calls to reduce code duplication and improve code organization, along with fixing existing functionalities. Their work demonstrates a focus on the core functionality and the design of the Python API layer.
dbus
aidan/behave
Jan 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:27 commits, 18 pushes, 7 branches in 9 months
pythonbddpython-style
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