Kake L Pugh

Skills

• Programming:
  • Five years' experience of Perl; skills now include:
    • Object-oriented Perl
    • Database integration (DBI, Class::DBI)
    • CGI development
    • Templating (mostly with the Template Toolkit)
    • Benchmarking, code profiling, code quality metrics (Benchmark, Devel::DProf, Devel::Cover, Pod::Coverage)
    • Automated testing — experience of test-first programming as well as fitting tests to legacy code
    • Use of version control systems (eg CVS, SCCS) as part of a programming team
  • I have released a number of Perl modules to CPAN – see my CPAN directory
• Operating Systems and System Administration:
  • User experience of various flavours of Unix including Linux (RedHat and Debian), Solaris and Digital Unix
  • Administration of a multi-user Linux machine
  • Some experience of Apache configuration, including a little mod_perl
• Other:
  • Experience of MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite, both as an application programmer and a database administrator
  • HTML, CSS, RDF

Experience

• October 2002 - present: Principal programmer on the CGI::Wiki and OpenGuides open-source projects.
  • Designed and wrote the first object-oriented wiki toolkit to appear on CPAN.
  • Created a fully-featured, RDF-enabled, geographically-aware wiki application for running collaboratively-written city guides.
  • Developed strategies for automated testing in a variety of environments: web applications, swappable backends, database access.
  • Led a team of volunteer programmers, communicating both face-to-face and online.
• May 2004 - October 2004: Fixed-term contract work for Hammersmith and Fulham council.
  • Worked within the Communications Department supporting the Web Team; Perl, PostgreSQL, Apache.
• November 2003 - January 2004: Perl/Template Toolkit programmer at state51.
• July 2003 - September 2003: Web programmer at T & D Limitless Web.
  • Supported Carsource UK and its subsidiary sites using Oracle, PL/SQL, and an in-house templating language.
  • Proposed and initiated policies for better internal documentation and more robust use of version control.
• August 2001 - June 2003: One of two Perl programmers at Penseroso Ltd.
  • Maintained, extended, and documented existing code for running art gallery websites, for example The Leicester Galleries.
  • Designed and built the British Antique Dealers' Association website, running on a custom object-oriented DBI wrapper.
  • Design and implementation of a portal site to tie the above two site types together, running on Class::DBI.
• October 1999 - June 2001: Trainee Analyst/Programmer, MIS, University of Oxford.
  • Creation and maintenance of user interfaces to Ingres database systems - SQL, Ingres 4GL, shellscripting (sh and ksh).
  • Worked within the Finance Division, liaising with accountants and end users.
• August 1999 - September 1999: Fixed-term contract to rebuild website for The Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
• January 1997 - June 1999: Various teaching positions as a graduate student, including a year's Lectureship at Mansfield College, Oxford.
  • Tuition of undergraduates in the mathematical sciences.
  • Taught one-to-one tutorials as well as classes ranging in size from six to fourteen.

Education

• October 1996 - September 1999: Graduate research into wound-healing angiogenesis, Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford.
• October 1993 - June 1996: BA (Hons) Mathematics (II.1), Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford.
• September 1991 - June 1993: A-levels: Physics (A), Double Maths (A, A), Music (B), Ebbw Vale Senior Comprehensive School.

Contact Details

• kake@earth.li
• Address and phone number on request

Last update 14 February 2005.