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{
"basics": {
"name": "Chisel Wright",
"summary": "Application developer with database-administration, system-administration and HTML/CSS/JavaScript skills. Particularly interested in development roles, or devops roles with good use of modern solutions; for example: docker; neo4j; apiary; buildkite Also interested in stable, sensible solutions, for example: PostgreSQL, Perl. ** Not interested in MySQL **",
"picture": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1219197189790093312/tHvulOCC_400x400.jpg",
"email": "chisel@chizography.net",
"phone": "+44 7966 44 67 68",
"website": "https://chizography.net",
"label": "Computer Software",
"location": {
"address": "",
"postalCode": "",
"city": "Northolt",
"countryCode": "GB",
"region": "London"
},
"profiles": [
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"network": "Twitter",
"username": "chizcw",
"url": "http://twitter.com/chizcw"
}
]
},
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"company": "Zoopla",
"position": "Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure)",
"website": "",
"startDate": "2019-06-01",
"summary": "",
"highlights": []
},
{
"company": "Zoopla",
"position": "Software Developer",
"website": "",
"startDate": "2016-08-01",
"summary": "• adopt maintenance and improvements around the Jenkins instances • refine, refactor, improve and maintain Jenkins groovy library for build pipelines • work on internal tools for improving developer workflow wrt. development, testing and deployment • deploy and maintain internal CPAN repositories (Pinto)",
"highlights": [],
"endDate": "2019-06-01"
},
{
"company": "YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP",
"position": "Senior Developer",
"website": "",
"startDate": "2015-02-01",
"summary": "* extend continuous deployment pipeline to enable Docker based deployments * introduce neo4j as storage for real-time customer association * own the tooling, examples and developer documentation around the evolving RESTful, JSON-based commerce services * design and build connectors, agents, and micro-services for the new stylish commerce architecture * contribute to the design of the platform's resources, APIs and payloads * identify and develop Linux-based tools to support the agile team's development, deployment and operational needs * be an evangelist for the stylish commerce platform, both inside and outside of NAP",
"highlights": [],
"endDate": "2016-08-01"
},
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"company": "THE NET-A-PORTER GROUP",
"position": "Senior Developer",
"website": "",
"startDate": "2014-12-01",
"summary": "",
"highlights": [],
"endDate": "2015-02-01"
},
{
"company": "YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP",
"position": "BLESS Committee (Chairperson)",
"website": "",
"startDate": "2014-08-01",
"summary": "* lead the restructuring of the committee to make better use of interests and enthusiasm * drive better branding of the committee through better use of email and consistent style * smarter use of technologies for gathering information; e.g. Typeform * increase sharing and visibility through the deployment of a BLESS portal; Joomla.driven CMS",
"highlights": [],
"endDate": "2016-08-01"
},
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"company": "NET-A-PORTER.COM",
"position": "Perl Architect",
"website": "",
"startDate": "2011-03-01",
"summary": "Migrate warehouse application from apache1/mod_perl1 to Plack/PSGI. Update perl build process to use 5.16.x and 5.18.x. Update perl build process to install on Centos-6/RHEL6 (previously Centos 5/RHEL5). Update product management application to run on Centos-6/RHEL6 (previously Centos 5/RHEL5). Implement network resiliency in bespoke message/job broker system.",
"highlights": [],
"endDate": "2014-11-01"
},
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"company": "NET-A-PORTER.COM",
"position": "Senior Perl Developer",
"website": "",
"startDate": "2010-11-01",
"summary": "",
"highlights": [],
"endDate": "2011-03-01"
},
{
"company": "NET-A-PORTER.COM",
"position": "Site Fire Officer",
"website": "",
"startDate": "2009-08-01",
"summary": "Lead the team of Fire Marshals; provide a single point of contact for questions and issues relating to fire safety issues at the company's head office. Also responsible for: * planning evacuation procedure * recruiting fire marshals * organising and running bi-annual evacuation drills",
"highlights": [],
"endDate": "2013-07-01"
},
{
"company": "NET-A-PORTER.COM",
"position": "Perl Developer",
"website": "",
"startDate": "2006-11-01",
"summary": "Improve in-house product/stock management system. Introduce new technologies and ideas: Apache::Session, DBIx:Class, Catalyst. Implement photography studio workflow functionality. Implement customer promotion management system. Design and create new in-house product management system and architecture with existing systems to facilitate the launch of TheOutnet.com.",
"highlights": [],
"endDate": "2010-11-01"
},
{
"company": "CPAN",
"position": "Contributor",
"website": "",
"startDate": "2004-04-01",
"summary": "",
"highlights": []
},
{
"company": "EHS Brann",
"position": "Lead Software Developer",
"website": "",
"startDate": "2002-01-01",
"summary": "Project design, implementation and maintenance for data-capture (microsites), data-processing and email/sms broadcasts. Maintain existing projects. Improve documentation and general working practices.",
"highlights": [],
"endDate": "2006-11-01"
},
{
"company": "Moneyextra/Chase De Vere",
"position": "Software Developer",
"website": "",
"startDate": "2000-01-01",
"summary": "Maintain and improve bulletin board for financial website. Maintain various existing projects/processes. Interview prospective new employees.",
"highlights": [],
"endDate": "2001-12-01"
},
{
"company": "Geodetic",
"position": "Programmer",
"website": "",
"startDate": "1997-01-01",
"summary": "",
"highlights": [],
"endDate": "1998-01-01"
}
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"institution": "Manchester University",
"area": "",
"studyType": "B.Sc. (Hons.)",
"startDate": "1993-01-01",
"gpa": "",
"courses": [],
"endDate": "1996-01-01"
},
{
"institution": "Arnold Hill",
"area": "",
"studyType": "",
"startDate": "1988-01-01",
"gpa": "",
"courses": [],
"endDate": "1993-01-01"
},
{
"institution": "Lampton",
"area": "",
"studyType": "",
"startDate": "1986-01-01",
"gpa": "",
"courses": [],
"endDate": "1988-01-01"
},
{
"institution": "Lionel Road Primary School",
"area": "",
"studyType": "Primary School",
"gpa": "",
"startDate": "1978-09-01",
"endDate": "1988-07-01",
"courses": []
}
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"name": "Perl",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Apache",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "PostgreSQL",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Git",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "MySQL",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Bash",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "JavaScript",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Linux",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
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{
"name": "HTML",
"level": "",
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{
"name": "LAMP",
"level": "",
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{
"name": "CSS",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
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{
"name": "Open Source",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
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{
"name": "REST",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Software Development",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
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{
"name": "Web Development",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Unix",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Subversion",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Technical Architecture",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Puppet",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Ubuntu",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Team Leadership",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Open Source Software",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Message Queue",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "SQL",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Test Driven Development",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Fashion",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Unix Shell Scripting",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Shell Scripting",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "HTML + CSS",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Docker",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Solr",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Linux server administration",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Joomla",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Mac OS X",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Fire Safety",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Mentoring",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Risk Assessment",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Application Development",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Application Architecture",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Software Engineering",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Cat Herding",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Kitten Herding",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "ProxyFu",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Sparkly Code Princess",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Being on IRC",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Terraform",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Groovy",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Jenkins",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Amazon Web Services (AWS)",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
},
{
"name": "Gitlab",
"level": "",
"keywords": []
}
],
"languages": [
{
"language": "English",
"fluency": "Native or bilingual proficiency"
},
{
"language": "French",
"fluency": "Elementary proficiency"
},
{
"language": "German",
"fluency": "Elementary proficiency"
}
],
"references": [
{
"name": "LiLi Kathleen Bright - Spotify",
"reference": "At the risk of sounding obsequious... I can't say enough good things about Chisel. He's not afraid to challenge people who want to take shortcuts; his commitment to doing things the right way is unmatched. Chisel is conscientious, precise, efficient, witty & thorough. He's really helpful and brilliant at communicating with everyone from the tech savvy to the computer illiterate. Legend."
},
{
"name": "Alex Sayle - Beacon Platform Inc",
"reference": "Great quality Perl work, good team player, good communication skills, and generally a nice person to work with."
},
{
"name": "Shirley Wong - Valtech DE",
"reference": "Chisel has excellent attention to detail and has ensured that his coded solutions are future-proof and robust. However, he is more than an average developer, he has frequently demonstrated his knack for ensuring that his solutions are usable and tailored to meet user needs."
},
{
"name": "Jason Tang - Net-A-Porter.com",
"reference": "Second time I've worked with Chisel at a company. His forward thinking to eliminate potential flaws in solutions he has to deliver is invaluable. He is clearly a passionate technical professional and takes great pride in the work and nothing less than 'best of my ability' is acceptable. I thoroughly enjoy working with Chisel as we're both happy to discuss solutions without involving egos and enabling us to provide stronger solutions to problems. Highly recommended. Jason"
}
]
}
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