Greg Sexton
Software Engineer at Kulipa
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGreg Sexton is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years' experience building production systems across major tech and government organisations, including Amazon, Facebook/WhatsApp, and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Based in London, he blends large-scale backend and full-stack expertise with practical product delivery, moving between high-throughput e-commerce and messaging platforms to smaller, fast-moving teams. He contributes to open source tooling—authoring an Org-Babel/Jupyter integration that runs code blocks via a lightweight Python HTTP server with session, image and debugging support—showing a knack for bridging developer workflows and runtime tooling. Greg’s career reflects a pattern of tackling complex, real-world engineering problems and improving developer experience, while comfortably shipping both low-level systems and higher-level integrations.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science at University of York
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Github Skills (18)
python10
emacs-lisp10
vim10
jupyter-notebook10
windows9
tornado9
html9
http8
api-design8
base64-encoding7
backup6
macos6
vi6
iphone6
macvim6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gregsexton/ob-ipython
May 2015 - Feb 2018
org-babel integration with Jupyter for evaluation of (Python by default) code blocks
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:69 commits, 34 PRs, 63 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Greg contributed to the development of an Org-Babel integration for IPython, creating a thin HTTP server in Python to execute code blocks. They established the initial framework for the integration, including basic evaluation capabilities and the ability to manage sessions. Further contributions include adding image support and enhancing the system with inspection and debugging features.
babelpythoncode-blocksjupyter-notebookevaluation
gregsexton/MatchTag
Nov 2011 - Mar 2016
Vim's MatchParen for HTML tags
Contributions:14 commits, 1 push, 2 comments in 4 years 4 months
vimvim-pluginmatchparenhtml-tagstags
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