Ian Wootten
Director at Nifty Digits Ltd
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIan Wootten is a Director and seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building simple, pragmatic tools to solve complex problems using Python and TypeScript. He runs Nifty Digits Ltd from Cardiff while having held senior and principal engineering roles across media, animation, and government organisations including the BBC, Aardman Animations, Audio Network and the Office for National Statistics. Comfortable moving between production pipelines, web interfaces and data-focused systems, he combines hands-on development with product-minded delivery. Ian holds a PhD in Computer Science from Cardiff University, reflecting a strong research foundation that informs practical engineering choices. As a freelancer and leader he favours shipping minimal, maintainable solutions that scale across creative and analytical domains.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
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Github Skills (186)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
iwootten/iwootten.github.io
May 2014 - Dec 2022
My personal blog
Contributions:218 commits, 2 PRs, 258 pushes in 8 years 9 months
jekyllmy-personal-blog
niftydigits/ftrack-s3-accessor
May 2020 - Mar 2022
An updated S3 accessor for ftrack-python-api
Contributions:8 releases, 4 reviews, 14 commits in 1 year 9 months
apipythonftrackupdatedaccessor
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