Colin Bull
Director Of Engineering And Data
Coventry, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Bull is a pragmatic technology leader with 14 years of experience building and operating trading optimization platforms, deployment tooling and enterprise monitoring systems, now leading Engineering and Data at Hippo Digital. He blends hands-on backend engineering (notably in F# and .NET) with architecture and delivery discipline, having introduced functional programming as a default at Petroineos and driven CI/CD and deployment improvements across projects. An active open-source contributor, his work spans well-known F# projects like FAKE, Paket and FSharp.Data—adding deployment, database provider and HTML parsing capabilities—and improving culture-aware model binding in Giraffe. Colin is platform-agnostic, comfortable across databases, JVM and native code, and known for applying design patterns and pragmatic best practices to simplify complex business problems.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Physics, MSc Physics at University of BirminghamWhitley Abbey Secondary School
Github Skills (31)
unit-testing10
nuget10
oracles10
admin10
testing10
net10
databases10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
database-administration10
asp-net-core10
type-providers10
asp-net10
package-manager-tool10
oracle10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
fsprojects/FSharp.Data
Dec 2013 - Sep 2018
F# Data: Library for Data Access
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:131 commits, 8 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Colin focused on implementing the HTML type provider for the F# Data library. Their work involved creating the core classes and methods for parsing and tokenizing HTML, as well as establishing the structure for representing and accessing HTML elements. They implemented the basic parsing and tokenization mechanisms to handle HTML documents. The primary goal of the commits was to provide a means for accessing data from HTML documents in a statically typed manner.
csvdatadata-accessfsharpxml
fsprojects/SQLProvider
Jan 2014 - May 2017
A general F# SQL database erasing type provider, supporting LINQ queries, schema exploration, individuals, CRUD operations and much more besides.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:239 commits, 37 PRs, 52 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Colin focused on implementing features for an Oracle database type provider, based on F#. They added and refined core functionality, enabling the database to support querying and handling individual entities. Their work included building the necessary interfaces, implementing methods to retrieve database schema information. Their contributions spanned code for handling null values, generating query texts, and enabling basic CRUD operations. The user also addressed whitespace handling in table names.
sqlserverfsharpcrudlinqcrud-operations
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