Andrew Kirkham
Founder CEO at Didsbury AI
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrew Kirkham is a founder and technology leader with 11+ years of experience building product-driven engineering teams and SaaS solutions for legal and logistics sectors. As CTO and later Founder CEO of inCase™ and now leading Didsbury AI, he blends product strategy with hands-on delivery to cut costs, plug time leaks and improve client communications through secure mobile integrations. He has led architecture and delivery at scale for retailers and delivery platforms (AO/Sorted) and previously built teams and DevOps practices across high-growth startups. An active contributor to open-source projects like Stellarium, he brings practical back-end experience in ephemeris and satellite data handling—an unusual niche that underscores his attention to correctness in complex domains. Based in Manchester with a BSc in Computing Science, Andrew pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep engineering craft to turn ambiguous problems into measurable business value.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computing Science, BSc (Hons) Computing Science at The University of Manchester
Chinese, French
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Github Skills (11)
stellarium10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
astronomy10
c119
c179
qt8
sbml6
xml6
poco6
xml-parsing6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Stellarium/stellarium
Jan 2020 - Nov 2021
Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and macOS. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 76 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on improving the functionality of the Stellarium planetarium software. Their contributions include fixing bugs related to TLE data loading and satellite ID parsing, improving Navstar features, and restoring lunar information. They also addressed feature requests by adding functionality to the AstroCalc module, enhancing the display of ephemeris data.
unixc-plus-plusrealisticreal-timeuniverse
A-j-K/base-dockers
Aug 2017 - Feb 2022
Simple repo to hold base docker images to build off
Contributions:71 commits, 3 PRs, 129 pushes in 4 years 6 months
docker-composedocker-imagedockerdocker-images
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