Lorin Thwaits
Senior Software Developer at myKB.com
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLorin Thwaits is a Senior Software Developer with 12 years of experience building resilient, data-driven web applications and architecting multi-tenant systems, most recently ensuring regulatory-grade reliability for a large health platform. A pragmatic Ruby on Rails specialist and database-minded engineer, he created The Brick, a Ruby gem that can instantly scaffold a working Rails app from virtually any source database, and has contributed PostgreSQL tooling such as an AdventureWorks-for-Postgres setup with useful convenience and materialized views. He blends hands-on coding, architecture, and teaching—having led intensive Rails bootcamps and classroom cohorts—to make complex systems approachable and maintainable. Based in Nottingham, Lorin pairs deep SQL and DBA skills with a security-and-compliance mindset (21 CFR Part 11), making him equally comfortable optimizing imports and defining auditable systems. He’s drawn to problems with many moving parts and a knack for turning them into simple, practical solutions.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
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postgresql10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lorint/AdventureWorks-for-Postgres
Apr 2016 - Jan 2021
Set up the AdventureWorks sample database for use with Postgres
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:1 review, 13 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Lorin primarily focused on modifying the `install.sql` file to set up and configure the AdventureWorks sample database for PostgreSQL. They added convenience views to simplify access to various tables within the database, improving developer experience. Further contributions included handling data import by specifying delimiters and encodings, and the user introduced XML-based views and materialized views, demonstrating a deep understanding of database schema and data manipulation techniques within PostgreSQL. The user consistently updated CSV import and XML data with the correct formatting.
set-upadventureworksdatabasepostgrespostgresql
lorint/devise_security_extension
Jun 2019 - Sep 2022
An enterprise security extension for devise, trying to meet industrial standard security demands for web applications.
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes in 3 years 3 months
ntlmweb-applicationssecuritydemandsindustrial
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