Julian Pettifer
Contract Software Developer at MK Test Systems
East Devon, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJulian Pettifer is a pragmatic full-stack contract software developer with over a decade of experience building and maintaining .NET-based systems for finance, property and e-commerce sectors. He routinely ships backend services and integrations—often in Azure and SQL Server environments—while contributing to front-end portals using Blazor, Vue and SPA patterns. Julian has a track record of taking on complex legacy-modernisation work, from automated OCR-driven income verification to large-scale mortgage and property platforms used by major UK lenders and agencies. He also contributes to open-source projects, notably improving torrent provider robustness in the well-known CouchPotatoServer by adding proxy support and magnet integration—an example of his willingness to dive into varied codebases to restore and extend core functionality. Based in East Devon, he pairs strong technical breadth with direct client-facing support and hands-on problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of ReadingPeter Symonds College
English
Github Skills (4)
python10
api9
apidoc9
webscraping8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CouchPotato/CouchPotatoServer
Dec 2013 - Jan 2015
Automatic Movie Downloading via NZBs & Torrents
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Julian primarily focused on enhancing the YIFY torrent provider within the CouchPotato server. They implemented features like proxy support, magnet link integration, and a proxy list to improve access to torrents. Additionally, the user updated and refactored other torrent provider URLs like TorrentDay and IPTorrents, which updated the core functionality of the application. Overall, the commits reflect a focus on maintaining and improving the application's core torrent search and download capabilities.
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