University of the West of England

Queen Marys college, Basingstoke

Bright, enthusiastic engineer of data, cloud, network & software, who really enjoys client facing roles. Excellent problem solving skills.

Skills: Amazon Web Services (AWS) · MariaDB · Perl · Solution Architecture · Information Architecture

Wood Mackenzie

Contract Software Engineer

Skills: Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Python · Machine Learning · Geographic Information Systems (GIS) · Data Pipelines

Climate X

Hired for a 3 month contract to launch a web project to help AI-enhanced MRI medical reports be seen by Doctors and Patients. Technologies used Python, Flask and AWS (DynamoDB, Lambda, Fargate, Step Functions).

Perspectum Ltd

Working hard to bring the benefits of Genomic medicine to the NHS

Genomics England

Senior Data Engineer

A healthcare technology company accelerating medical research and improving patient care
Designed by clinicians, focused on patients, powered by AI.

We combine clinical artificial intelligence technology and ethically sourced, anonymised patient data to help people everywhere get better care. To do this, we have created a unique partnership with the NHS that unlocks the value of electronic patient record data for research while safeguarding patient privacy. Alongside this, we develop clinically validated software applications that create clinician and patient benefit while providing highly curated data.

Our business aims to have a double bottom line, providing an attractive return to our shareholders and making a positive social impact; improving health and generating wealth that we share with our NHS Trust partners and the University of Oxford.

Responsibilities:

Create and maintain an optimal data pipeline architecture and data warehousing in a greenfield environment.
Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimising data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using big data technologies.
Work to deliver configurable, scalable, reliable tools in the form of infrastructure-as-code solutions.

Sensyne Health

Data Engineer

Cloud CRM software provider, where I wrote standalone custom business automation solutions using the PHP API interface provided for  our customers.

Workbooks.com

Software Developer

Contract was to update a website that I have previously built for NEC to provide functionality for resellers. This included updating all branding colours and images across a multi-purpose website.  
Added a news/press release area, which links to either downloaded a document stored in a MySQL database or opened a hyperlink to other content. Which allows NEC Europe to control its corporate message to their distributors.
Created informational pages for resellers to easily understand the new opportunity.

NEC Europe

Contractor

Scientis Solutions flagship product NetScope collects and stores PMON, RMON and System data on NEC PASOLINK radio equipment.
Responsible for all customer facing tasks, pre-release testing and bug reporting to the developer and other stakeholders for the product which is telecoms network element data collection and reporting software.  
Conducted all on-site work across Europe - Installations, classroom training, upgrades, and customer approval testing in Greece, Croatia, Brussels. VPNs used in UK and Serbia.  
Achieved solution acceptance into Deutsche Telekom group across Europe, deployed in Greece, UK, Czech Republic and Serbia. Currently in-progress for acceptance with TeliaSonera.  
Developed Perl software to collect daily the IP addresses from the configuration files of existing NMS’s and FTP’d the data away to our server to allow the software configuration to stay synchronised with network growth, without user involvement.  
Creator of all documentation, from technical manuals to business cases.

Scientis Solutions Ltd

Head of Technical

Bunse provides enterprise data services to corporations and Bunse is primarily focused on the midata initiative.  
As a technical founder, I am primarily responsible for writing the software which powers the Bunse restful API and the integrations with our customer base.  My responsibilities also include helping with the sales process, assisting with customer service issues and growing the business.
Challenged banks, by creating websites which provided a much-improved user experience for banking.  
Used Python/Django to create a company website we could update. The website had custom blogging  functionality, contact forms with email and was highly customised.  
Django was also used to build a RESTful API for Midata based off an external spec. The validation  processes involved scripting huge amounts of data-into Django, such as all UK postal addresses and UK electoral roles. Functionality also included being able to send SMS outbound when certain API functions were triggered. I wrote all parts of the software.  
Using Perl and my credentials, logged in through all security and web-scraped all transaction record data from Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest banking websites. We also parsed any downloaded data files into a PHP based LAMP website (as Django was not suitable), which created database tables during runtime to allow super-fast data/website operation and security between user’s data.  
Early member of Personal Data and Trust Network. Met with senior civil servants to keep them informed. Built the first to-spec Midata API solution by links to the Digital Catapult.

Bunse corporation

CEO and Co-Founder

Working and advising on the networks of major mobile and broadband companies across Europe and North Africa.
Training of NEC's customers on network planning and usage of network management software.
OSS (snmp) integration consultant
Troubleshooting customer WAN and LAN DCN networks for problems experienced in the network management system.
Development of custom software products (and one-offs) to provide customer satisfaction by fulfilling missing functionality on the NMS platform e.g. retrieving performance statistic data or inventory data from every radio in extremely large networks.  
Quality assurance testing of the software prior to customer installation.

William Gilchrist