Rob Whittaker
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRob Whittaker is a web developer with 11+ years’ experience building scalable, high-traffic web platforms, specialising in Ruby and a strong background across the full stack from HTML/CSS/JavaScript to SQL and NoSQL systems. Currently a Perl specialist at Barclays, he contributes to a global procurement application within a small production team, bringing hands-on UNIX command-line expertise, idiomatic Git workflows and solid debugging and release automation practice (Capistrano, TDD). His academic grounding in Mathematics with Computer Applications informs a pragmatic, pattern-driven approach to MVC and object-oriented design. Passionate about Agile and XP practices, he actively practices pair programming and iterative delivery methods and has sought community learning through regular Extreme Programming meetups. Notably comfortable working with third-party teams, he blends deep technical craft with collaborative delivery in enterprise environments.
11 years of coding experience
BSc (Hons), Mathematics with Computer Applications, BSc (Hons), Mathematics with Computer Applications at Sheffield Hallam University
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Github Skills (96)
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ruby-on-rails10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
purinkle/lastfm
Feb 2018 - Dec 2022
A Ruby gem for creating last.fm charts for custom time periods.
Contributions:9 reviews, 13 commits, 99 PRs in 4 years 10 months
chartsruby-gemrubyperiodsgem
purinkle/dotfiles-local
Jan 2015 - Jan 2025
A set of vim, zsh, git, and tmux configuration files.
Contributions:260 PRs, 764 pushes, 294 branches in 10 years 2 months
vimtmuxtmux-configurationconfiguration-filesneovim
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