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 (3)
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.
djangopython
cgbarnwell/afraid-to-commit
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:5 PRs, 9 pushes, 9 branches in 6 months
pythonworkshopdjangocommitpython-django
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