Ian Norton
Senior Software Engineer at nCipher Security
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Norton is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cambridge with 17 years of professional experience building secure, production-grade systems at nCipher Security and earlier at Thales e-Security. He blends deep systems and security engineering knowledge with hands-on full-stack development, contributing to projects from bespoke web payments to device and server administration. An active open-source maintainer (CUnit, junit2html, gitlab-emulator) and contributor to EDMarketConnector, he has extended plugin architectures and improved usability for community tools. His background includes early large-scale Linux deployments for online gaming and leading rapid web development teams, reflecting a practical, operations-aware approach to engineering. Known for pragmatic refactors and bridging user-facing features with low-level workarounds, he thrives on making complex systems more extensible and reliable. He holds a first-class BEng in Computers and Networks from the University of Essex.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Computers and Networks, I.T, 1st Class Honours, BEng Computers and Networks, I.T, 1st Class Honours at University of EssexBillericay School
Github Skills (5)
plugin-development10
tkinter10
python10
api9
apim9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
EDCD/EDMarketConnector
Jan 2016 - Aug 2021
Downloads commodity market and other station data from the game Elite: Dangerous for use with all popular online and offline trading tools.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 13 PRs, 97 comments in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily worked on enhancing the EDMC plugin architecture to support new features and integrations. This included implementing a plugin system allowing third-party developers to extend the application's functionality, including adding user interface elements, preference settings, and event handling. The user also refactored the settings dialog, added the ability to disable plugins, and implemented a workaround for a data handling issue in the companion API. These contributions indicate a focus on extending and improving the application's usability and features.
elitepythoneddntradingstation
inorton/EDMCHits
Jun 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:21 releases, 37 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 1 month
8080javascriptedmc
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