Fred Heath
Senior Software Engineer at Medify Ltd
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFred Heath is a product-driven senior software engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience across the full SDLC, specialising in Ruby, Elixir, relational databases and Behaviour-Driven Development. He has led teams and product initiatives from requirements capture through release, recently shaping data analytics and visualisation platforms and driving architectural improvements at scale. A pragmatic advocate of agile methods and traceable requirements, he combines technical leadership with deep implementation skills—whether integrating third-party APIs, adding test frameworks, or introducing blockchain services for IP management. An experienced conference speaker and two-time author on agile requirements and Scrum, he brings a habit of writing and teaching to his engineering practice. Based in Cardiff, he blends academic grounding in AI with a curiosity for meta-programming and the physics-meets-fiction reading list that informs his problem-solving perspective.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Systems, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Systems at Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
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Github Skills (12)
apim10
api10
http-request10
ruby10
rspec9
opencv9
database-cleaner6
visual-studio6
rubygems6
elixir6
elixir-mix6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
github/github-services
Feb 2014 - Apr 2014
Legacy GitHub Services Integration
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Fred focused on modifying and maintaining the `lib/services/honbu.rb` and `test/honbu_test.rb` files within the repository. They updated URLs, configured API endpoints, and adjusted authorization methods for an external service named "Honbu." The user's commits demonstrate an understanding of interacting with a third-party API and managing its integration within the project. Their work involves setting up authentication and event handling.
github-servicesintegration-services
RedFred7/dover_to_calais
Feb 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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