Charles Barnwell
IT Consultant at Self-Employed
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCharles Barnwell is an experienced IT consultant with 18 years post-IBM consultancy practice and a 34-year technical career at IBM spanning operating systems development, systems engineering and mainframe expertise. Based in England, he specialises in Linux, AIX, z/OS and the IBM ECM suite, helping organisations bridge legacy enterprise platforms with modern open-source tooling. He combines deep systems-level knowledge from decades on enterprise operating systems with practical, client-facing consultancy delivered as a self-employed consultant since 2010. An advocate for open source, he has contributed clear, user-focused documentation to community projects aimed at lowering the barrier for novice Python/Django contributors. Trained as a physicist at UCL, he brings analytical rigor and a systems-thinking approach to complex infrastructure problems. Colleagues value him for pragmatic solutions that respect operational realities of large-scale, mission-critical environments.
18 years of coding experience
University College London
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (4)
virtualenv10
documentation10
pip10
python3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
evildmp/afraid-to-commit
Sep 2015 - Jul 2016
Don't be afraid to commit - a workshop/tutorial for inexperienced Python/Django developers who would like to contribute more to the projects they use.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 1 comment in 9 months
Contributions summary:Charles primarily contributed to the documentation of the project. Their commits included updating the list of attendees and learners, correcting the installation command for `pip`, and adding instructions for installing `pip` in a virtual environment. The focus of the contributions centers on providing clearer and more accurate information for users, specifically aimed at improving the initial setup and understanding of the project.
pythonworkshopdjangocommitpython-django
cgbarnwell/afraid-to-commit
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:5 PRs, 9 pushes, 9 branches in 6 months
pythonworkshopdjangocommitpython-django
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