Tim Abell
Director & Software Engineering Consultant at Rust Workshop
Basingstoke and Deane, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTim Abell is a seasoned software engineering leader and consultant with 18 years delivering pragmatic, user-focused systems across government, finance, and startups from Basingstoke. As director of Charm Consulting and founder of Rust Workshop he blends hands-on C#/.NET and Azure expertise with delivery coaching, microservices, event sourcing and pragmatic refactoring of legacy monoliths. He’s repeatedly led small teams to sustainable, testable delivery—introducing CI, automated DB builds and better engineering practices while embedded as a trusted contractor. Tim’s background includes GDS-style product teams and low-latency Azure Service Fabric projects, and he’s known for translating messy technical debt into phased, low-risk plans that actually get shipped. An educator at heart, he also runs community-focused Rust workshops and volunteers tech leadership for the DogLost charity, showing a preference for projects that create clear user value.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Cybernetics and Control Engineering, BSc Cybernetics and Control Engineering at University of ReadingReading Blue Coat School, Sonning
German, French
Stackoverflow
11,542reputation
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115answers
32questions
sql
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reporting-services
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windows
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grails
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Github Skills (200)
command-line-interface10
libgit2sharp10
specification10
schema10
reporting-services10
syncthing10
cpd10
tld10
svn10
synchronization10
names10
zsh10
filesystem10
bash10
tfvc10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
timabell/uk-it-recruiter-domains
Jan 2015 - Dec 2022
List of the domains of UK IT recruiters & some scripts for processing it.
Contributions:105 pushes, 4 branches in 8 years 1 month
recruitersdomains
timabell/schema-explorer
Oct 2015 - Mar 2022
A database schema explorer, find out more at:
Contributions:3 releases, 1375 commits, 21 PRs in 6 years 6 months
mysqlsqldatabasedatabase-schemapostgresql
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