Bridson Bridson
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBridson is a seasoned full-stack Python/Django developer with over a decade of commercial experience delivering web and data-driven systems for high-profile clients including HM Government, BBC and Airbus. He combines backend architecture and ETL expertise with front-end work in Vue/React and modern JS patterns, and has strong ops skills across Linux, NGINX/Apache and CI/CD pipelines. Recent open-source contributions to Nautobot demonstrate his ability to improve production-grade network automation software by extending models, forms and date-based filtering in a mature Django codebase. Comfortable leading small teams and hiring, he pairs PEP8-aligned craftsmanship with pragmatic optimisation of databases (Postgres/MySQL/PostGIS) and test suites. Unusually for a developer, he holds a BMus in Composition, reflecting a creative mindset he applies to system design and problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BMus, Composition, BMus, Composition at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
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Github Skills (15)
data-modeling10
dc10
custom-fields10
python10
database-design10
django10
rest-api8
json8
api-rest8
yaml8
api-design8
restful-api8
django-admin6
readonly6
slug6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nautobot/nautobot
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Network Source of Truth & Network Automation Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:140 reviews, 136 commits, 105 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Bridson primarily contributed to backend development, focusing on modifying the data models and forms within the DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) application. Their work included increasing the character limit for serial numbers in multiple models and forms. They also implemented code changes to facilitate filtering on date-based custom fields. This included updating Nautobot and added new features for rendering and filtering.
netmikopythonnetwork-automationtruthsot
briddo/nautobot
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
Network Source of Truth & Network Automation Platform
Contributions:1 push in 5 months
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