Tom Mortimer-jones
Infrastructure Automation Developer
Sandbach, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Mortimer-jones is an Infrastructure Automation Developer with 16 years of engineering experience, specialising in Python, Linux and AWS. He has a strong track record as a contractor and consultant across finance, e‑commerce and government sectors—recent roles include Barclays, Dell Technologies and Wayfair—bringing pragmatic automation and backend expertise to complex environments. Tom contributes to notable open-source projects like CKAN, improving API docs and backend robustness, showing an attention to developer experience as well as code quality. His background includes a PhD in Computational Chemistry, which underpins a methodical, data-driven approach to problem solving and systems design. Based in Sandbach, UK, he blends hands‑on coding with technical writing and middleware error-handling improvements that reduce production surprises.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computational Chemistry, PhD Computational Chemistry at University of BirminghamChemistry, Chemistry at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (7)
ckan10
api10
python10
documentation10
middleware9
open-data8
catalog8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ckan/ckan
May 2013 - Feb 2015
CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data. It powers catalog.data.gov, open.canada.ca/data, data.humdata.org among many other sites.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on improving the project's documentation and backend codebase. They corrected API documentation, updated contributing guidelines, and fixed typos. In addition, the user added an extension point for exception logging middleware, and made changes to handle potential errors within the middleware and added after commit notification to existing functionality.
portalspythondatadata-catalogdbpedia
datagovuk/contracts-archive
Jun 2015 - Jul 2020
Contracts Archive Finder
Contributions:20 PRs, 67 pushes, 20 branches in 5 years 1 month
ethereumarchivefindersoliditysmart-contracts
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