Curtis Parfitt-ford
Full Stack Developer at Loudspeek
York, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorCurtis Parfitt-ford is a Full Stack Developer and founder with a decade of experience building scalable, mission-driven web platforms for political campaigns and non-profit clients. As director and principal developer of Loudspeek he built a Ruby on Rails stack that handles nearly two million requests per month, and contributes backend fixes to open-source projects like the widely used postcodes.io API. He now applies that hands-on engineering to Poteris, a tech-for-good consultancy, while maintaining freelance work across Ruby, Python, Go, C# and JavaScript. Unusually for a developer, Curtis pairs his technical practice with frontline emergency care as an Emergency Ambulance Crew and is studying for an MSc in Paramedic Science, giving him a practical perspective on human-centred design and public policy. He is also an active advocate on tech policy and digital lobbying, combining engineering, civic tech and regulatory insight to shape safer, more accountable systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
error-handling10
javascript10
nodejs10
api10
apidoc10
integration-testing9
test-integration9
postgresql8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
ideal-postcodes/postcodes.io
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
UK postcode & geolocation API, serving up open data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Curtis primarily focused on improving the accuracy and robustness of the postcode API, specifically for Scottish postcodes. Their work involved identifying and correcting errors related to data discrepancies between different postcode datasets, and refactoring code to improve error handling. This included updating error messages and test cases to reflect the expected behavior and the underlying data sources. Further changes improved the overall error handling logic of the API.
geolocation
mashedkeyboard/Dashday
Jul 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:1 release, 94 commits, 2 PRs in 11 months
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