David Seddon
Principal Backend Engineer at Octopus Energy
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDavid Seddon is a Principal Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, well-designed Python systems across fintech and energy tech. His career spans senior roles at Octopus Energy/Craken and Growth Street, where he was promoted rapidly for forensic debugging of complex financial transaction systems and for being the go-to problem solver on misbehaving numbers. Unusually for an engineer, he holds advanced degrees in English literature and has acting experience, which informs a communicative, user-focused approach and a talent for clear, readable code and teaching. Mostly freelance early in his career, he excels at joining tangled codebases and simplifying them while leading teams, running meetups, and giving technical talks. He is a Django Software Foundation member and balances scientific diagnostic rigor with an artistic eye for design and maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MA Literatures of Conflict, MA Literatures of Conflict at University of YorkBA English Literature, BA English Literature at University of Bristol
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Github Skills (101)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
seddonym/impulse
Feb 2019 - Oct 2022
Impulse is a command line tool for exploring the imports in a Python package.
Contributions:4 reviews, 37 commits, 16 PRs in 3 years 8 months
command-line-toolpython
seddonym/import-linter
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
Lint your Python architecture.
Contributions:168 reviews, 318 commits, 198 PRs in 4 years
pythonlinterimportsdependencies
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