Angus Johnston
Technical Specialist at NHS National Services Scotland
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAngus Johnston is a Technical Specialist and PHP developer based in Edinburgh with 14 years of experience building practical web and backend solutions, currently supporting NHS National Services Scotland. He brings hands-on expertise in PHP/CodeIgniter and database schema design, having contributed backend improvements to popular open-source projects like Ion Auth and the Shimmie image gallery to improve data integrity and image-source logging. Comfortable moving between DevOps, IM&T support, and development roles, Angus focuses on making life easier through automation and accurate data handling. His background in web development and charity tech work shows a pragmatic, user-focused approach to solving real-world problems within constrained environments.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
HNC Interactive Media (Web Development), HNC Interactive Media (Web Development) at Edinburgh College
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
45reputation
622reached
2answers
3questions
Github Skills (16)
database-migrations10
php10
database-migration10
image-management10
schema-design10
codeigniter10
schema10
database-design10
sql10
mysql10
db-schema10
database-schema10
logging8
windows6
winapi6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
shish/shimmie2
Jan 2012 - Mar 2017
An easy-to-install community image gallery (aka booru)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:291 commits, 13 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Angus primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the image gallery, focusing on features related to image management. Their work involved modifications to core PHP files, adding logging for source, rating, and lock status changes. They also implemented changes to improve the accuracy of image data updates and to enable source logging upon image upload.
image-gallery
benedmunds/CodeIgniter-Ion-Auth
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Simple and Lightweight Auth System for CodeIgniter
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR in 6 days
Contributions summary:Angus primarily contributed to database schema design and implementation within the CodeIgniter framework. Their work focused on modifying database migrations to include configuration table usage. The user's commits also involved fixing schema constraints such as email character length, ensuring data integrity and code readability. These changes indicate a focus on maintaining and updating the underlying database structure for the authentication system.
authcodeigniter
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