Giles Dring
Principal Technology Consultant at TPXimpact | B Corp™
Calderdale, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGiles Dring is a Principal Technology Consultant and independent technologist with over two decades of experience shaping software and systems architecture across large enterprises and startups. He combines deep IBM-honed expertise in enterprise architecture, performance and infrastructure with hands-on delivery in DevOps, JavaScript/TypeScript engineering and open data-led innovation. Currently defining the technical platform for a care-sector start-up and working with graph technologies like GraphQL and Neo4j, he excels at translating emerging tech into practical, explainable solutions for non-technical stakeholders. As director of his own consultancy and a former IBM Chief Architect in Application Management Services, he balances governance and roadmapping with pragmatic delivery. Based in Calderdale, he also brings local SME experience—everything from email and website migrations to remote IT support—revealing a rare mix of enterprise scale thinking and boots-on-the-ground problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Electronic and Computer Systems Engineering, MEng Electronic and Computer Systems Engineering at University of LeedsRoyal Grammar School, Worcester
English, French
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Github Skills (104)
command-line-tool10
cli10
macos10
binaries10
homebrew10
administration10
linux9
ruby9
data-dashboard9
facebook9
derived9
chat8
testing8
package-manager8
open-data8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
open-innovations/leeds-2023
Feb 2022 - Jul 2024
Data repo for Leeds 2023
Contributions:6 reviews, 8 PRs, 566 pushes in 2 years 5 months
leedsleeds2023microsite
open-innovations/yff-data
Jul 2022 - Feb 2025
Source of the Youth Futures Foundation data dashboard
Contributions:18 PRs, 438 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 7 months
lumedenodata-dashboarddashboardyouth
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