Graham Watts
Software Architect at Ascentry
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolGraham Watts is a software architect with over two decades of experience building vendor-agnostic, real-time and historical data solutions for upstream oil & gas and process industries, now based in Helsinki. He combines deep Microsoft .NET expertise (C#, ASP.NET variants, Entity Framework, SQL Server) with web technologies to connect plant historians, alarms and third‑party services to cloud analysis and visualization platforms. Graham has designed secure on‑premises-to-cloud integration for Industrial App Stores and implemented online mathematical modelling for corrosion and erosion analysis, turning complex engineering data into actionable insights. An active contributor to the json-everything project, he has improved JSON schema generation and validation—bringing rigorous testing and refactoring skills to open source. Known for pragmatic architecture and hands-on delivery, he blends field-focused domain knowledge with robust software craftsmanship.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computing Science, BSc (Hons) Computing Science at University of Aberdeen
English, German, Finnish
Github Skills (12)
unit-testing10
net10
json10
asp-net10
schema-org10
dotnet10
schema-design10
csharp10
schema10
json-schema10
dotnet-core10
object-oriented-programming9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
json-everything/json-everything
May 2021 - Jul 2021
System.Text.Json-based support for all of your JSON needs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 9 commits, 5 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Graham primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `json-everything` project, focusing on the implementation of features related to JSON schema generation and validation. Their work included fixing bugs, adding unit tests, and improving the codebase by refactoring and enhancing the handling of object properties and attribute handlers. A significant portion of their effort involved organizing and sorting properties in the schema generation process.
json-textjsonschema-validatorjson-logicsystem-text-jsonjson-schema
wazzamatazz/csharp-repo-template
May 2020 - Feb 2025
Repository template for a C# project
Contributions:22 PRs, 63 pushes, 29 branches in 4 years 9 months
template-enginetemplatecpptemplatesnette
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