Marcus Poulton
Executive Director at Extent
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcus Poulton is an Executive Director and seasoned software engineer based in south-east London with nine years of recent experience delivering mission-critical, high-availability systems using C#, .NET Core, Azure, microservices and GIS technologies. He blends hands-on architecture and coding with team leadership and DevOps ownership, having led agile teams building distributed services communicating via Azure Service Bus, Apache Artemis and Elasticsearch. Marcus is a specialist in emergency services systems—designing telephony-integrated 999 dispatch platforms, real‑time ambulance mobility and gazetteer search solutions used by London Ambulance Service and UK police forces. His background is unusually multidisciplinary: a BSc in Biomedicine and an MRes/PhD in Computer Science underpin work that spans simulation, intelligent systems and smart-city research. He also runs Extent research projects and a macadamia orchard, reflecting a mix of practical entrepreneurship and long-term research-driven engineering.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Birkbeck School of Business, Economics and InformaticsMasters in Research, Computer Science, Distinction, Masters in Research, Computer Science, Distinction at Birkbeck, U. of London
English
Github Skills (27)
quest8
signalr-client6
signalr-core6
consumption6
webclient5
signalr5
archived5
telephony4
gis3
asp-net3
code-documentation3
asp-net-core3
paradox2
firestore1
statistics1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Extentsoftware/Quest
Dec 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 679 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years
questemergencyoperationaltelephonyoperational-systems
Extentsoftware/FarmSensors
Jun 2019 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 209 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 7 months
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