Andrew Aikman
Staff Engineer at Aikman Ltd
Epsom and Ewell, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrew Aikman is a pragmatic Staff Engineer with over a decade of professional software experience, currently driving robotics and automation work at Automata from Epsom, Surrey. He blends deep Python and Django expertise with front-end skills in TypeScript/React and practical DevOps experience (Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS), routinely moving projects from prototype to production. Andrew has led migrations of large multilingual enterprise sites and contributed to the core of the well-known django-cms project, simplifying CMS internals and admin integrations. As founder and director of Aikman Ltd he pairs hands-on engineering with mentorship and team leadership, preferring to do things correctly the first time. His background spans embedded C++, full-stack web development and bioinformatics tooling, reflecting a comfort with both low-level systems and high-level distributed services. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who favours automation and AI to reduce toil and scale impact.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Higher National Diploma in Applied Information Technology Computer Science, Higher National Diploma in Applied Information Technology Computer Science at Burton CollegeBsc(hons) 2.1 Applied Information Technology (Top-up) Computer Science, Bsc(hons) 2.1 Applied Information Technology (Top-up) Computer Science at University of Staffordshire
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Github Skills (16)
management10
gatsbyjs10
cms10
pager10
django-cms10
manage10
python10
placeholder10
django10
git6
django-models6
django-admin6
django-oscar6
django-rest-framework6
github6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
django-cms/django-cms
Jun 2018 - Oct 2022
The easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise CMS powered by Django
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:176 reviews, 49 commits, 103 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Andrew contributed to the Django CMS project by addressing multiple issues, including removing UI elements, refactoring code related to publishing and menu visibility, and removing features such as reverting to live content and the alias plugin. They made changes related to the Page, PageContent, and Placeholder models, and registered the Placeholder model with the admin panel. These contributions focused on simplifying the CMS core, refactoring existing features, and addressing issues related to the Django admin.
cmsdjangopythondjango-cms
divio/djangocms-versioning-filer
Dec 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:19 reviews, 22 commits, 50 PRs in 2 years 5 months
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