Philip Wild , Edinburgh, United Kingdom

I have developed and delivered a range software projects since the 1990s. My strength is to take an existing or newly researched project and turn it into a product that can be deployed and used. Many applications require someone to spend the time on shaking out the bugs, optimising performance and ensuring that the user isn't going to be frustrated when they add their own data. I am that person, understanding both client expectations and resource constraints.



Follows are highlights of recent consultancy projects that I have completed as a contractor through my limited company. Some projects were completed part-time in parallel with others:


• August 2020 – For a Worksome client I successfully completed a brief to produce a C++ solution for managing Linux based daemons as part of their product migration from Windows to Linux.


• Feb-July 2020 – Took a start-up company’s machine learning algorithms, originally within a Jupyter notebook, and enabled the company to gain return from sales by giving the software a Python GUI.



• Jan-March 2020 – Wrote C++ code to reformat text-based navigation data and ingest positions into a MySQL database. Code then incorporated into the client’s software package.



• 2015-2020 – Commissioned to design, write, and maintain a Java based tape reading and data analysis package for Moveout Data, without which the company would not be able to operate effectively. Saved resources by adopting automated cloud-based methods for data QC, first using AWS Lambdas and then using Python’s Flask integrated into a Docker solution.



• 2018-2019 – An Edinburgh engineering company trusted me to successfully re-engineer their existing data analytics package using C++ and Qt, making it accessible for all their staff.



• 2013-2019 – London based client provided me with up to 12 days work per month to code up machine learning, data science and modelling algorithms using Python to improve understanding of oil properties in North Sea reservoirs. Wrote methods to run the code from their analysis package (Java), with data flowing both ways in/out to their MySQL database. Position finished when the company was successfully sold.