Josie Atkins
Senior Software Engineer at Phocas Software
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJosie Atkins is a Senior Software Engineer based in Christchurch, NZ, with nine years of professional experience building product-focused software at Phocas and SLI Systems. A Cambridge mathematics graduate who later completed a Graduate Diploma in Computer Science, she brings strong analytical foundations to backend and data-oriented engineering challenges. At Phocas she progressed from Software Developer to Senior Software Engineer, demonstrating a track record of ownership and technical growth within the same product organisation. Her background tutoring and supporting disabled students at Oxford signals strong communication skills and a patient, service-minded approach to mentorship and cross-functional collaboration. Comfortable translating complex requirements into reliable implementations, she excels at making data useful for business users rather than just producing models or reports. Colleagues rely on her blend of mathematical rigor and practical engineering to simplify tricky problems and ship maintainable systems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics at University of CambridgeGraduate Diploma Computer Science, Graduate Diploma Computer Science at University of CanterburyHeckmondwike Grammar School
English, German
Github Skills (9)
stripe6
api-client5
api5
stripe-api4
python4
cffi3
reflection2
graphql-schema1
graphql1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
josie-smith/calendar
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:11 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
josie-smith/Sudoku-difficulty-tester
Jan 2017 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 review, 9 PRs, 50 pushes in 6 years 2 months
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