Marc Kirkwood
Software Engineer at Immunocore
Northampton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMarc Kirkwood is a pragmatic software engineer with 13 years of experience building and optimising Python-backed web services, primarily with Django, for clients ranging from bioinformatics teams to consumer platforms. He combines hands-on backend development, API performance tuning and deployment automation with a user-first mindset and practical TDD practices. At Immunocore he maintains critical internal services for pharmaceutical workflows and champions observability and modern packaging, while his contracting work has spanned AWS Lambda, GraphQL, Kubernetes and data-driven Django projects. Comfortable troubleshooting computational workflows and game backends alike, he also mentors developers and bridges gaps between data scientists and production systems. Outside work he’s a committed runner and cyclist — a detail that hints at his persistence and habit of iterating toward better performance.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Honours) Computer & Network Technology, BSc (Honours) Computer & Network Technology at Northumbria UniversityBTEC National Diploma for IT Practictioners IT, BTEC National Diploma for IT Practictioners IT at Tyne Metropolitan College
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Github Skills (44)
brunch10
goodies9
django8
django-project8
python8
python-client8
pipeline8
django-cms8
knife8
redis7
django-framework7
javascript7
requirejs7
xadmin7
build-automation7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
trojjer/freq-dist-nltk
Jul 2020 - Jun 2023
Script to run frequency analysis on input text documents, and list the top 20 words with example sentences.
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
trojjer/zoo
Nov 2018 - Mar 2020
A basic CRUD demo featuring an API for animals at a zoo.
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 1 year 4 months
apijavascriptbasic-crudcrudnodejs
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