Ian Parkes
Software Developer at Yodel (Yodel Delivery Network Ltd)
Wigan, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorIan Parkes is a pragmatic software developer with over 25 years in IT and 14 years of focused experience delivering and supporting business-critical systems, currently maintaining Yodel’s parcel tracking core. His deep expertise spans relational databases, Informix and Oracle PL/SQL, Java, Unix shell scripting and second/third-line support, reflecting a career rooted in telecoms and logistics. Ian combines hands-on development with production support and database administration, routinely turning complex requirements into reliable, maintainable solutions. He has a track record of modernising and stabilising legacy systems—from Informix 4GL-era applications to contemporary Java and Oracle environments. Based in Wigan, he brings institutional memory and pragmatic engineering judgment that helps keep high-availability operations running smoothly. An often-overlooked strength is his long experience writing both bespoke business logic and the supporting operational processes that make large systems resilient in day-to-day use.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
French
Github Skills (45)
computation9
solidity9
chain9
full-stack9
nuxt9
blockchain9
sdk9
vue9
ethereum9
chainlink9
azure-bot-service9
bot-framework9
oracle9
python8
microsoft-cognitive-services8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
iangriggs/funkysplashbacks
Nov 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
iangriggs/BotBuilder
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 22 pushes in 1 month
botmicrosoftsdk-builderoffice-365bot-framework
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