David Batey
Co-Founder at DefendDomain
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Batey is a seasoned founder and software engineer with 13 years of experience building and scaling web applications from early-stage startups to acquisitions. He founded Nickelled, a no-install interactive guide platform that reduced support costs and boosted user satisfaction before being acquired by Omniplex, and later served as Development Director there. Comfortable across the stack, David has deep Rails expertise—evidenced by contributions modernizing the Monologue blogging engine for Rails 4—and a track record of hands-on product, customer success, and engineering leadership. He has led distributed engineering teams (including offshore collaborators) on high-throughput consumer and retail platforms and worked as an integration SME on complex SAP landscapes. Currently engaged in multiple ventures, he splits time between building new products and co-founding startups in London. He holds an MSc in Computer Science from Oxford and combines academic rigor with pragmatic startup execution.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Msc Computer Science, Msc Computer Science at University of OxfordBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Oxford Brookes University
German
Github Skills (8)
activerecord10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
database-migration9
blog-engine9
database-migrations9
rspec7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jipiboily/monologue
Jul 2013 - Aug 2013
Monologue is a basic blogging engine. It is a Rails mountable engine you can mount in your already existing Rails app, or a in a new one! Enjoy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 10 days
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the development of the Monologue blogging engine. Their work involved upgrading gem dependencies and the Monologue version, as well as refactoring controller logic by removing deprecated code and implementing strong parameters. Furthermore, the user made structural changes, including migrating data and refactoring the application to be compatible with Rails 4. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the engine's functionality and maintainability.
ruby-on-railsrails-appmountrailsruby
davidlbatey/best_in_place_datetime
Mar 2013 - Oct 2014
Contributions:2 commits in 1 year 6 months
datetimeplacedatetime-pickergemin-place
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