Duncan Parkes
Senior Software Developer at University of Oxford
Greater Oxford Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDuncan Parkes is a Senior Software Developer with over 16 years' experience building Python-driven web systems, currently delivering production software at the University of Oxford. He spent seven years as a core developer at mySociety, contributing to high-profile UK civic sites, and co-runs planningalerts.com—a project that turns messy local-authority planning data into timely notifications for users. Comfortable across Django and Zope stacks, he has deep practical expertise in screenscraping and turning poorly structured websites into usable data pipelines. A former open-source editor for Apress, he also brings strong technical writing and editorial judgment to documentation and developer-facing work. With an academic background in mathematics and a PhD-level grounding in maths/computer science, he combines rigorous analytical thinking with pragmatic engineering.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Mathematics, MA, Mathematics at University of OxfordPhD, Mathematics/Computer Science, PhD, Mathematics/Computer Science at University of Leicester
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Github Skills (107)
reproducible-science9
django9
user-registration9
fingerprinting9
parliament9
webextension9
chrome-extension9
bioinformatics9
extjs9
transparency9
pipeline8
nextflow8
singularity8
badger8
candidate8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
duncanparkes/whg-training-resources
Jun 2022 - Oct 2022
Genomics, bioinformatics and statistics training resources developed at the WHG, University of Oxford
Contributions:93 pushes, 8 branches in 3 months
statisticsgenomicstrainingbioinformaticsoxford
duncanparkes/welsh_assembly_members
Feb 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
pythonscrapypartyscrapescraping
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