David Barrows
Engineering Trainer at ASOS.com
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Barrows is a senior full-stack engineer and engineering trainer based in London with 11 years of professional experience building cloud-native .NET microservices, containerised full-stack apps, and developer training programs. At ASOS he created and scaled a Training Course Manager (React + .NET Core) and leads courses on Docker, Kubernetes, AKS and CI/CD while embedding training into the platform engineering culture. His background spans consulting and hands-on delivery across Azure serverless, CosmosDB, ServiceBus and front-end frameworks, and he’s an active maintainer of developer-facing docs—having updated IdentityServer4 quickstarts to keep examples current. A former contractor and director, he combines practical delivery experience with a knack for turning developer knowledge into reusable learning tools, and interestingly his first degree is in music, reflecting a creative approach to tooling and teaching.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
4 years, Music, 4 years, Music at San Francisco State University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
768reputation
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Github Skills (16)
identityserver10
asp-net-core10
csharp10
oauth10
dotnet-core10
openid-connect10
documentation9
apidoc9
api9
javascript8
jquery-ui6
razor6
asp-net-mvc6
jquery6
tfs6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DuendeArchive/IdentityServer4
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 9 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on updating documentation and example code within various quickstart guides for IdentityServer4. Their contributions involved modifying code snippets, file paths, and port configurations to align with current best practices and ensure the examples are up-to-date and functional. The changes span across multiple quickstarts, addressing client credentials, interactive ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET Core and APIs, JavaScript client, Entity Framework, and ASP.NET Identity scenarios. These updates improve the learning experience for users of the IdentityServer4 library.
identityasp-netnet-coreoauth2asp-net-core
davidbarrows/cat0logic
Jan 2020 - Nov 2022
An application to keep track of "cats" (musicians).
Contributions:44 PRs, 42 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 10 months
musicmusicianskeep
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