Ashley Midgley
Senior Software Engineer at Go Places
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAshley Midgley is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with a decade of experience building full-stack web applications and scalable products. They combine startup grit—founding GeoBuff and driving it to 30,000+ quiz plays and multi-language reach—with enterprise experience at Xero and progressive senior roles at Kanexa and Go Places. Comfortable across the stack, Ashley has freelanced for diverse projects (ivo.ai, mondplan.nl, wilderworld.com) and navigated the trade-offs of product, growth, and hosting costs firsthand. Their background from the University of Otago in Computer Science underpins a pragmatic engineering style that balances shipping features quickly with long-term maintainability. Notably, Ashley has hands-on founder experience that informs their approach to product-driven engineering and operational resilience.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Otago
English, Spanish
Github Skills (40)
brazil10
kubernetes10
python10
shortcuts9
keyboard-shortcuts9
screensaver9
macos-big-sur9
svg9
earth9
topojson9
window-management9
keyboard8
javascript8
maps7
snap6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ashmidgley/countries-of-the-world
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
:earth_africa: Interactive map quiz.
Contributions:36 commits, 18 PRs, 24 pushes in 3 months
mapearthinteractive-map
ashmidgley/bestsellers
Sep 2018 - May 2020
Web-scraping the latest bestselling books from bookdepository.com.
Contributions:22 PRs, 34 pushes, 17 branches in 1 year 8 months
pythonscrapyscrapingweb-scrapingscraper
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