David Brooks
Technical Architect at Talis Education and Technology from Sage
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Brooks is a Technical Architect with 11 years of experience designing scalable, cloud-native systems and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Birmingham. He specialises in natural language processing and machine learning, and has repeatedly turned research-grade prototypes into production services—most recently leading a high-scale, low-latency API for one-click journal access and migrating legacy scraping tools to robust, test-covered libraries. Comfortable across the stack, he combines functional-programming discipline (Scala, Scheme influences) with modern AWS patterns, event-driven architectures, and infra-as-code to shorten feedback loops and improve reliability. David is also experienced in standards-driven integrations (LTI, OIDC, WCAG) for higher-education platforms and has built novel systems such as CRDTs and multilingual NLP pipelines. He balances hands-on engineering with coaching teams to own architecture and operational excellence, and often focuses on automating quality and delivery rather than just building features.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of BirminghamHigh School A-levels; GCSEs, High School A-levels; GCSEs at Bridley Moor High School
French, German
Github Skills (79)
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virtual-scroll10
javascript10
gulp10
cli10
angular10
smooth-scrolling10
directive10
typescript10
json-api10
angularjs10
nodejs10
react10
web-developer9
api9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
techfromsage/lti-1-3-php-library
Jun 2020 - Jun 2024
Private mirror of https://github.com/IMSGlobal/lti-1-3-php-library
Contributions:1 release, 21 reviews, 4 PRs in 4 years
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junglebarry/scharpa
Sep 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year
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