Paul Rouse
Software Development Project Manager at Tata Consultancy Services
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Rouse is a Software Development Project Manager with 13 years in software and two decades-plus in service and operations management, currently leading development projects for Royal London Group’s pensions division at Tata Consultancy Services. He blends operational rigor from long-tenured roles at Ricoh Europe and ALL NRG with hands-on backend engineering experience, notably contributing to prominent Haskell open-source projects like Yesod and Persistent. His technical contributions focused on improving testing, authentication, proxy handling and MySQL compatibility—practical fixes that improve developer experience and production reliability. Based in Stony Stratford, he is adept at translating complex legacy and distributed system behaviors into pragmatic delivery plans. Colleagues would describe him as a delivery-focused manager who still dives into code to unblock tricky integration and persistence bugs.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Business/Commerce, General, Business/Commerce, General at Northeast London College of Technology
Github Skills (10)
web-framework10
lib10
persistent10
haskell10
mysql10
testing10
database-design9
user-authentication9
authentication9
http-client8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
yesodweb/persistent
Oct 2016 - Mar 2022
Persistence interface for Haskell allowing multiple storage methods.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 57 commits in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to improving the `persistent` Haskell library, focusing on the MySQL backend. Their work involved relaxing upper bounds on dependencies, fixing bugs related to MySQL's handling of default null values, and incorporating fixes for version-dependent MySQL behavior, especially fractional time. They also integrated and addressed code changes to test for MySQL's behavior.
haskellpersistencestorage
yesodweb/yesod
Jan 2013 - Aug 2017
A RESTful Haskell web framework built on WAI.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 7 PRs, 1 push in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the Yesod web framework, focusing on enhancing its functionality and addressing identified issues. Their work included adding features for request header manipulation in testing, integrating and documenting authentication modules, and improving the development experience by addressing timeout issues and proxy environment variables. Furthermore, they made code adjustments, like the addition of an `guessApprootOr` function and modifications in how dynamic redirection is handled.
apirestfulhaskellframeworkwebframework
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