Laurence Rawlings
Specialist Software Engineer at Solirius Consulting
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLaurence Rawlings is a Specialist Software Engineer based in the UK with nine years of hands-on experience and a strong academic background—First Class BSc in Computer Science and a Distinction MSc in Cyber Security. Currently at Solirius Consulting, he blends full-stack development with security-minded engineering to deliver maintainable, user-friendly tools and services. He maintains practical open-source chops, notably contributing a cross-platform CLI and core functionality to the Savify project for downloading Spotify tracks with metadata and cover art. Earlier work in SEO and web development gives him an edge in building products that are both technically robust and mindful of user discoverability. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prioritises security and maintainability while shipping features.
9 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Cyber Security, Distinction, Master's degree, Cyber Security, Distinction at University of SouthamptonComputer Science BSc (Hons), Computer Science, First Class Honours, Computer Science BSc (Hons), Computer Science, First Class Honours at Swansea University
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Github Skills (19)
python10
mp310
youtube-dl10
ffmpeg10
spotify-api10
onclick9
clickable9
metadata9
clicking9
oneclick9
pytest8
laravel-sail6
taglib6
cover6
docker6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
LaurenceRawlings/savify
Nov 2020 - Jul 2021
Download Spotify songs to mp3 with full metadata and cover art!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:24 releases, 2 reviews, 155 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Laurence primarily contributed to improving the project's functionality and maintainability. Their work included fixing the PyPi long description, updating the README.rst with relevant information, adding necessary requirements, and implementing the core Savify code. The user also removed API credentials from the code for security purposes and made data paths cross-platform. The addition of the CLI demonstrates a commitment to making the tool user-friendly.
id3v2pythonmp3youtubealbum-artwork
LaurenceRawlings/google-challenges
Feb 2020 - May 2021
Google Hash Code 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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