Rimu Atkinson
Web Developer at ChoreBuster
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Top SchoolRimu Atkinson is a seasoned freelance web developer based in Christchurch with over two decades of experience building web applications and services, primarily using Python and Drupal. He has founded and scaled ChoreBuster since 2006, demonstrating product intuition and long-term operational ownership alongside consulting and contract work for organizations including the New Zealand Parliament. Comfortable across stacks—having used Ruby on Rails, PHP/MySQL, and ASP.Net/SQL Server—he also brings practical Android/HTML5 app experience and basic Linux server administration for LAMP deployments. Currently serving as Web Developer at Virtual Industries Group and CTO at Buddytree, he blends hands-on implementation with technical leadership in startup and agency settings. His career reflects a mix of steady freelance practice and product-building, with a knack for taking small ideas to sustained, user-facing services.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Software Engineering, BSc, Software Engineering at The University of Waikato
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Github Skills (102)
chat10
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azure-sql-database9
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
rimu/no-qanon
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
A blocklist for QAnon, conspiracy, fake news, nazi websites.
Contributions:6 reviews, 173 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 4 months
pihole-blocklistsconspiracypi-holefake-newsnews
rimu/cache-longer
May 2021 - Jun 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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