Caradoc Davies
Senior Technical Sales Engineer at Arqit
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCaradoc Davies is a Senior Technical Sales Engineer with 13+ years of experience translating complex business requirements into secure, commercially-aligned IT architectures across enterprise security, telecoms and geospatial domains. He blends solutions architecture, technical pre-sales and project delivery with hands-on backend engineering—demonstrated by contributions to prominent open-source geospatial projects like GeoTools and GeoWebCache where he fixed robustness issues and improved S3 integration and data handling. Comfortable briefing C-level stakeholders, he also coaches and builds high-performing teams to deliver through full project lifecycles. Known for thinking beyond conventional boundaries, he pairs deep technical curiosity (MSc, Durham/Imperial pedigree) with practical experience in messaging, mobile/cellular and big-data analytics to drive measurable business outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, MSc at Imperial College LondonBSc, BSc at Durham University
Github Skills (18)
testing10
grib10
geospatial10
jdbc10
java10
spatial-data10
javas10
geo10
amazon-s310
aws-s310
spatial10
rest-api10
netcdf10
s3-bucket10
xml8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
geotools/geotools
Jul 2012 - Mar 2019
Official GeoTools repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:387 commits, 171 PRs, 252 pushes in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Caradoc's commits primarily focus on enhancing the GeoTools library's capabilities for handling geospatial data. The contributions include implementing support for URL query components in the app-schema-resolver cache, updating the handling of H2 database paths with spaces in image mosaic catalog, and fixing intermittent JDBC join and filtering failures. The user also contributed to the implementation of various test improvements and bug fixes.
sqlserverpostgiswmsgeotoolsmongodb
GeoWebCache/geowebcache
Mar 2014 - Dec 2017
GeoWebCache is a tile caching server implemented in Java that provides various tile caching services like WMS-C, TMS, WMTS, Google Maps, MS Bing and more
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 15 PRs, 42 comments in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Caradoc primarily focused on bug fixes and code enhancements within the GeoWebCache project. They addressed issues related to path handling, URL encoding, and REST API functionality, improving the robustness of the system. Significant contributions were made to the S3 storage integration, including refactoring the S3 client creation and resolving related integration test failures. Additionally, the user implemented crucial changes to ensure proper layer removal and tile deletion operations.
geowebcachecachingtilewmswmts
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