Joel Cross
Director at Joel Makes Things
Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Cross is a Bristol-based Director and full-stack developer with 13 years' experience building Python-driven web and mobile systems, specialising in AWS-backed architectures. He runs a creative agency, Joel Makes Things, delivering rapid, low-cost websites for small businesses while also exploring decentralized mobile apps. Joel's background spans startups and product teams—working on eCommerce, eClinical systems, and blockchain projects—and he’s comfortable shipping backend refactors and compatibility work, as evidenced by his contributions modernising a MailChimp Python client for Python 3. With an MSc in Creative Industries Computing and a BSc in Computer Science, he combines practical engineering with an entrepreneurial mindset and openness to global contracting.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Creative Industries Computing, MSc Creative Industries Computing at Birkbeck, University of LondonBSc (Hons) Computer Science, BSc (Hons) Computer Science at University of Exeter
Github Skills (6)
refactoring10
python10
apidoc9
code-library9
api9
lib9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
VingtCinq/python-mailchimp
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Python client for v3 of MailChimp API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Joel primarily focused on updating the codebase to support Python 3 and modern coding standards. Their commits systematically added `from __future__ import unicode_literals` to multiple Python files, impacting various entities within the mailchimp3 library. This indicates a refactoring effort to ensure compatibility with newer Python versions and improve the library's maintainability. The changes were applied to multiple files, suggesting a comprehensive review of the codebase.
apipythonpython-clientmailchimp-apimailchimp
ukch/refugeedata
Apr 2015 - May 2021
The refugee data tracking system that is used by the Ank-Aid food distribution programme
Contributions:68 PRs, 620 pushes, 66 branches in 6 years 1 month
pythonprogrammefoodtrackingaid
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