Alice Heaton
Senior Software Engineer at Wellcome Trust
Chichester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAlice Heaton is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years’ experience building and maintaining web-focused systems, currently driving backend work at the Wellcome Trust from Chichester. She combines strong Python, JavaScript and PHP skills with hands-on server and infrastructure maintenance, modern workflows (git, TDD, code review) and agile delivery. Her Master’s in Computer Science from Université de Nantes underpins a pragmatic engineering approach to data integrity and performance. An active contributor to the well-known CKAN data management system, she has improved datastore queries, validation and full-text search—work that boosts real-world data portals. Colleagues rely on her to translate complex data requirements into robust, maintainable backend solutions.
13 years of coding experience
English, French
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Github Skills (20)
postgresql10
python10
data-management10
datastore10
data-storage10
ckan10
api10
testing9
json9
django9
open-data8
catalog8
go6
alembic6
dummy-data6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ckan/ckan
Jun 2014 - Oct 2014
CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data. It powers catalog.data.gov, open.canada.ca/data, data.humdata.org among many other sites.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 11 comments, 3 issues in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alice primarily focused on improving the data management system's backend functionality. Their contributions include fixing issues related to flash message handling, ensuring correct field name stripping, and refining how the system handles data validation and full-text search. They also worked on optimizing queries and interactions with the datastore, improving overall performance and data integrity.
portalspythondatadata-catalogdbpedia
NaturalHistoryMuseum/nhm-windshaft-app
Mar 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:28 commits, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
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