Dale Potter
Python Developer (Contract) - UK Central Government Department at Self-employed
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDale Potter is an experienced Python developer with 11 years in software delivery, currently building a Django/Wagtail intranet for a UK central government department while championing TDD and clear, well-documented code. He has strong full-stack skills—APIs, frontend (HTML5/CSS/JS, Gov.UK Design System) and databases (Postgres, Azure Cosmos DB)—and hands-on DevOps experience across AWS, Terraform, Openshift and container tooling. A practical open-source contributor, he’s improved validation and tests in the popular flask-wtf project and routinely implements CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Travis and Jenkins. He combines product-minded engineering and project leadership from roles at HM Land Registry, IATI and upReach, and brings a creative, can-do approach to automation and web scraping for both commercial and civic use. Fluent in French and a frequent conference speaker, he pairs technical depth with strong knowledge transfer and mentoring experience.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus Student Exchange Economics French, Erasmus Student Exchange Economics French at Université Pierre Mendès-FranceBA (1st class Hons) Business Economics with European Study (Economics Business Marketing French), BA (1st class Hons) Business Economics with European Study (Economics Business Marketing French) at University of Exeter
English, French
Github Skills (7)
file-validation10
python10
flask10
flask-ask10
wtforms10
testing10
pytest9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pallets-eco/flask-wtf
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Simple integration of Flask and WTForms, including CSRF, file upload and Recaptcha integration.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Dale primarily focused on improving the `flask-wtf` library, a Python library for integrating WTForms with Flask. Their contributions centered on enhancing file upload validation, including file size checks and error messages. The user refactored and improved testing to provide more robust validation rules. They also addressed documentation and error handling within the library.
file-uploadpythonblueprintpyramidrecaptcha
IATI/IATI-Websites-archive
Jul 2015 - Jul 2018
[Archived] Used to track issues about the content of IATI websites. Also contains some templates.
Contributions:17 PRs, 41 pushes, 15 branches in 3 years
iatitemplatestatic-sitecsssaltstack
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