John Askew
Python Application Developer
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Askew is a Python application developer with 11 years' experience building web applications and services—primarily using Django and Flask—currently contributing to digital care solutions at RIVIAM. He brings practical DevOps experience (Ansible, Docker), AWS-hosted deployments, and strong database design/management skills across PostgreSQL, MySQL and lightweight SQLite. Having worked across full-stack roles and the IATI ecosystem, he combines hands-on engineering with a pragmatic focus on deployment and server maintenance. His background as an English teacher and MUN faculty advisor adds proven leadership, public speaking and negotiation skills that strengthen cross-functional collaboration. Not immediately obvious from his GitHub bio: he routinely pairs developer discipline with pedagogic clarity, making complex systems easier for teams and stakeholders to adopt.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniería informática, Ingeniería informática at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello
English, Spanish, German, French
Github Skills (64)
codelist10
xml-schema10
validation10
nightly10
xml10
schema10
xslt9
django9
static-site9
open-data9
charts8
python8
single-source8
xml-parsing8
security8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
IATI/IATI-Publishing-Statistics
May 2019 - Feb 2020
Tables and files presenting different stats for IATI publishers
Contributions:40 commits, 8 PRs, 35 pushes in 9 months
iatistatisticspublishersstatspresenting
IATI/IATI-Codelists-NonEmbedded
Aug 2018 - Nov 2019
IATI Codelists that are 'non-functional' and usually provide lookup information.
Contributions:28 commits, 19 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 3 months
iatinon-functionalvalidationopendatastandards
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