Tome Petrovski
Open Data CKAN Developer
Bitola, Pelagonia, North Macedonia
Summary
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Top SchoolTome Petrovski is an Open Data and CKAN specialist with five years of software development experience, currently driving CKAN implementations and core improvements at Link Digital. A top contributor to the CKAN ecosystem since 2021, he has made practical back-end and front-end contributions to the flagship ckan repository and its harvest extension, improving code quality, accessibility, and metadata handling for widely used open data portals. Tome is a Python expert comfortable across Django, Flask, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, React and containerized deployments, and he pairs that stack knowledge with hands-on UX tweaks and configuration enhancements. Before tech, he spent nearly a decade managing and co-owning hospitality businesses, a background that informs his pragmatic, user-focused approach and collaborative work style. Based in Bitola, North Macedonia, he’s passionate about making data more accessible and enjoys contributing to open-source projects that power national and international data portals.
5 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Taki Daskalo
Github Skills (17)
python10
flask-ask10
ckan10
flask10
redis9
jinja29
html9
apidoc8
api8
css8
json8
testing7
git7
ui-design7
graphical-user-interface7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ckan/ckan
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
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 & UI Designer
Back-end Developer & UI DesignerContributions:56 reviews, 315 commits, 93 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Tome made various contributions, including fixing timing issues in the Flask app and redesigning the user profile's password fields. They also updated the front-end by incorporating changes for accessibility, modifying the pagination button styling, and updating the URL validation logic. Furthermore, the user implemented changes to the site's configuration.
portalspythondatadata-catalogdbpedia
ckan/ckanext-harvest
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
Remote harvesting extension for CKAN
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 11 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Tome primarily focused on refactoring and improving the CKAN extension's codebase. Their contributions include replacing legacy templating with a more modern approach and updating the configuration for the message queue. They also removed unused variables and merged branch updates, demonstrating a focus on code quality and project maintenance. Furthermore, the user added functionality to include harvest object metadata in package show.
harvestingckan
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