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Python backend engineer, six years’ commercial experience, the last three at a healthcare provider — owning products end to end, from requirements through to production support. Based in Hull, available fully remote across the UK.

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Experience

Software Developer

Aug 2023 – Present

Exemplar Health Care · Remote

Healthcare provider operating 60+ nursing homes with 4,000+ staff. Own multiple products end to end within a small team, working with product owners from requirements through to production support.

  • Built a company-wide absence management system used by 4,000+ employees (Python, Django, SQL Server, Azure SSO), with multi-stage escalation workflows, role-based access control, and REST API integrations automating shift cancellation and return-to-work detection.
  • Compliance Platform — internal CQC auditing system. The audit team mirrors the CQC framework and records evidence per site; the platform scores it using an algorithm built to match their calculation. Replaced spreadsheet tracking across 60+ sites, cutting audit preparation from days to minutes. Django REST Framework, Angular.
  • Built an asset-tracking system covering 15,000+ devices (Django REST Framework, Angular), flagging equipment with out-of-date PAT testing.
  • Led the migration of codebases from individual ownership into a structured source-control organisation, and introduced a kanban workflow, linting, and documentation standards.

TechPython · Django · Django REST Framework · REST API design · SQL Server · Azure · RBAC · SSO · TypeScript · Angular · Tailwind CSS

Software Developer

Jul 2020 – Aug 2023

Smarter Data Management · Remote

Moved from technical support into the development team on the strength of Python automation built unprompted, outside the remit of the role.

  • Developed features across a bespoke heating control platform (Python, NestJS, Angular) providing remote monitoring and control of temperature sensors in commercial properties.
  • Maintained an IoT estate of Raspberry Pi controllers running Python for sensor data collection and automated heating control.

TechPython · NestJS · Angular · TypeScript · Raspberry Pi · IoT

Communications & Information Specialist

Jul 2016 – Jul 2020

Royal Navy · Portsmouth

Ran secure communications and information systems to formal security and data-handling standards.

Projects

I can’t show the code I write at work, so here’s what I write for myself — the code, the Terraform, the tests, and the commit history.

Anlaby Park Community Library

Personal

wallistom/anlaby-park-community-library

Events calendar and admin area for a community-run library, so opening hours and events can be edited without touching code. One Lambda per endpoint behind API Gateway, infrastructure in Terraform, deployed by GitHub Actions authenticating through OIDC rather than stored keys, and a WCAG check that fails the build.

Built, deployed, and offered to the charity.

Technical skills

Backend
Python, Django, Django REST Framework, REST API design
Cloud & infrastructure
AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, IAM), Azure, Terraform, Docker, GitHub Actions, CI/CD
Databases
PostgreSQL, SQL Server, DynamoDB
Frontend
Angular, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
Practice
Automated testing (pytest), AI-assisted development reviewed like any other contribution

Certifications

Verifiable on Credly.

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