Toby Atkin-wright
Data Ingest Manager
St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolToby Atkin-wright is a seasoned software and data engineer with 17 years’ experience building workflow and ingestion systems for large-scale digitisation projects. As Data Ingest Manager at Findmypast he architects and maintains Ruby/MySQL-based pipelines, leveraging Docker, RabbitMQ and ZFS to process and replicate vast image and OCR workloads. His background spans C++, Java, Objective-C, Perl and PHP, and he has deep practical experience with image tooling (ImageMagick, Kakadu), Tesseract OCR and file-format validation (JHOVE). Comfortable in secure, encrypted environments, he combines systems-level storage expertise with web and Rails application development for editorial workflows. Based in St Andrews, he runs a contracting company for freelance work and brings an unusual mix of game-dev roots and archival digitisation domain knowledge to reliably move analogue collections into searchable digital form.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Interactive Computing System Design, MSc, Interactive Computing System Design at Loughborough UniversityBSc (Hons), Computational Science, BSc (Hons), Computational Science at University of St AndrewsNottingham High School
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Github Skills (10)
python7
analyzer7
linter7
ruby6
code-analyzer5
formatter5
rubocop5
static-code-analysis5
static-analysis4
data-engineering4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tobyaw/advent-of-code-2022
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:135 commits, 123 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
findmypast/recruitment-test-data-engineering
Jun 2020 - May 2022
Code test for data engineering candidates
Contributions:33 commits, 25 pushes in 1 year 11 months
pythonengineeringcandidatesdata-engineering
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