Nick Guy
Database Administrator
Wakefield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Guy is a seasoned Database Administrator with 11 years' experience managing large SQL Server estates and delivering high-availability solutions across SQL Server 2005–2019. Based in Wakefield, he has led upgrades, designed data warehouses and SSIS/SSAS solutions, and automated operations with PowerShell to support hundreds of databases and complex DR scenarios. Certified in Azure Fundamentals and multiple SQL Server tracks, he specialises in performance tuning, Availability Groups, replication and reporting services while driving efficiencies through archiving, automation and resource governance. An active contributor to open-source tooling for scientific visualization, he has enhanced pyart’s radar plotting and gating features—demonstrating an aptitude for back-end data visualization beyond traditional DBA responsibilities.
11 years of coding experience
2.1, Business Studies, 2.1, Business Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University
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Github Skills (6)
data-visualizations10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
python10
matplotlib10
digital-signal-processing10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ARM-DOE/pyart
Aug 2015 - Oct 2022
The Python-ARM Radar Toolkit. A data model driven interactive toolkit for working with weather radar data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 9 PRs, 137 comments in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the `pyart` repository by modifying the `RadarDisplay` class, which involves plotting radar data. Their work focused on implementing and updating the gatefilter functionality, specifically how it masks data. Furthermore, the user added and updated docstrings and added functionality for plotting azimuthal cross-sections and made updates to the time-height displays. The user's contributions directly enhance the visualization capabilities of the toolkit for weather radar data.
model-drivenpythonradar-processingradardata-driven-model
nguy/SHARPpy
Jul 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
hodographsoundingpython
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