Alice Purcell
Software Engineer at Bloomberg
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlice Purcell is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building production software at companies ranging from Google and Palantir to OakNorth and Bloomberg. She has progressed through roles that blend deep technical delivery with staff-level engineering responsibilities, demonstrating strength in complex systems and scalable service development. Her open-source contributions include technical writing for Python's PEPs—improving clarity and examples for PEP 705—reflecting a rare combination of hands-on coding and meticulous documentation skills. Based in England, she brings experience across finance and large-scale tech environments, comfortable translating domain complexity into practical implementations. Colleagues describe her as a thoughtful communicator who elevates technical proposals and ensures they are accessible to broader engineering audiences.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of Cambridge
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
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dynamic-typing10
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joda-time10
documentation10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
python/peps
Nov 2022 - Feb 2024
Python Enhancement Proposals
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:35 reviews, 9 PRs, 52 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Alice primarily contributed to the documentation of PEP 705 within the Python Enhancement Proposals repository. Their work involved updating the PEP document with new discussion links, fixing typos, and rewriting sections to improve clarity and focus. The contributions also included refining examples and clarifying technical specifications, demonstrating a strong focus on documentation and communication of the proposal.
python
alicederyn/gittools
Mar 2015 - Dec 2021
CLI tools to get more out of git
Contributions:1 review, 179 commits, 5 PRs in 6 years 9 months
cli-tools
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