Roger Hunwicks
Principal System Architect at Kimetrica
Bangladesh
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Top SchoolRoger Hunwicks is a Principal System Architect with 25 years in IT and 14 years of hands-on engineering experience building large-scale, data-driven platforms for humanitarian and government clients. He designed and leads the FEWS NET data platform—managing a 16M+ point warehouse and end-to-end pipelines using open-source tools (Kobo, Luigi, Pandas, Plotly, Mapbox)—and has built high-availability cloud systems for the FAO’s IPC process. As a former CIO he blends strategic IT leadership with day-to-day architecture and team mentoring, having led development organizations across East Africa and beyond. An active backend contributor to the popular django-import-export project, he focuses on robust import workflows, error reporting and real-world data interoperability. With a BA in Mathematics from Oxford, he combines analytical rigor with practical engineering to turn complex, messy data into analysis-ready solutions.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Mathematics, BA, Mathematics at University of Oxford
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Github Skills (16)
python10
django10
phantomjs10
amazon-web-services9
csv9
amazon-ec29
javascript9
fluentd6
php6
logging6
sonata-admin6
forms6
symfony6
xls6
factory-boy6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
django-import-export/django-import-export
Sep 2013 - Feb 2018
Django application and library for importing and exporting data with admin integration.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 11 PRs, 44 comments in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Roger primarily contributed to the back-end of the Django application, focusing on improving the import-export functionality. They implemented features to skip unchanged rows during import, added hooks for customizing the import workflow, and improved error reporting. The user also addressed inheritance issues within the resource classes and ensured proper handling of related manager fields.
csvxlspythonadmindjango
FEWS-NET/HEA-Database-Development
Apr 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:51 reviews, 51 PRs, 68 pushes in 9 months
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