Craig Sparks
Core Engineer at Reahl Software Services
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolCraig Sparks is a seasoned Core Engineer with over a decade of experience building production trading systems in Java while simultaneously developing the Reahl Python web framework and its ecosystem. He splits his time between commercial work—maintaining unit trading, asset accounting and reconciliation systems—and open source development, bringing rigour in OO design, refactoring and testing to both domains. Based in Pretoria, he is a pragmatic polyglot who automates workflows with Python and shell, creates tooling for aviation (Android fuel calculator, KML utilities) and runs his homelab on Ubuntu. Formerly a part-time commercial helicopter pilot and ultra-distance runner, he applies the same discipline from aviation and endurance sports to managing complex systems and long-term projects.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of Pretoria
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
134reputation
4kreached
15answers
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Github Skills (11)
python9
pypi7
web-framework7
pandas6
sqlite6
nested-lists6
parsing6
sqlalchemy6
python-wheel6
java6
python-web1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
craig-reahl/reahl
Sep 2016 - Mar 2024
The Python-only web framework
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 474 pushes in 7 years 7 months
asgipythonframeworkweb-framework
IwanVosloo/reahl
Sep 2016 - Feb 2024
The Python-only web framework
Contributions:2 PRs, 110 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 6 months
pythonframeworkweb-framework
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