I’m a software developer. In the past I have been a project manager,
IT Director, and a consultant specialising in the Electricity
Industry. I am currently working in a new company that is capturing
public data on energy markets and selling automatically generated
reports. Most of my work consists in capturing data, putting it into
databases, and generating the reports. I also create web served user
interfaces for management of processes and delivery of the end
products.
I've been doing this sort of thing on and off for some years now, and
the focus switches from capture and management of guarantees of
origin for green generation, to detailed reporting of electricity
generation data, and back again.
Almost all the work I do uses Python: data capture, data analysis,
user interfaces, and small tools just to do stuff. This gives me a
common base for the different tasks so I don't have to keep reminding
myself how to do basics in whatever language I'm using at the
time. The results are not always pretty, but the job gets done.
Recently I've gathered a lot of the generic process into the Lokai
package. This supports interlinked process for data capture and so on,
as well as a highly structured user interface for task management and
product delivery. I use this as the basis for the various services I'm
currently working on.
