Database Developer

PIERRE MARSHALL

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

EXPERIENCE

Technical Research Officer for

Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

Software development as part of the Bodleian Digital team.

• Wrote a Rust crate for indexing web archive (WARC) files.

• Deployed the Browsertrix web crawler with Kubernetes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

• Wrote a custom web crawler to collect data from almost every game on the itch.io platform.

• Contributed to the ActivityPub standard as part of the W3C Social Web group.

Nov. 2024–Present

Developer for Freifunk

Sponsored by Google Summer of Code.

• Wrote a Rust utility for transforming and loading a large archive of JSON files into a MongoDB database. I also set up a GitHub workflow to check and test the code.

• Wrote a GraphQL interface with Node.js to resolve calls to MongoDB and make community data publicly available.

• Data visualisation with d3.js.

May–Sept. 2024

Database administrator for Leicester City Council

• Wrote SQL scripts for database reports running on Microsoft SQL Server.

• Wrote Python scripts to connect the ebs database API with the Google Workspace API. This included system

administration of a server running Debian GNU/Linux.

• Managed Open Data releases using Swagger/OpenAPI. GDPR risk assessments.

Mar. 2022–Sept. 2023

EDUCATION

IMPA at Tsinghua University

Web scraping in Python and parsing HTML to extract information about political parties.

Sept. 2023-May 2024

CONTACT

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077**-***-***

53 Great Clarendon Street

Oxford · OX2 6AX

ONLINE

https://github.com/extua

https://www.extua.pw

SKILLS

CODING

Rust Python JavaScript

DATABASES

SQL MongoDB GraphQL

MARKUP

Typst LATEX HTML/CSS

INFRASTRUCTURE

Kubernetes

GNU/Linux

AWS Cloudfront

GitHub Actions

CERTIFICATIONS

Azure Database

Administrator

Associate

AWS Developer

Associate

GitHub

Foundations

Postgraduate research at Leicester University

Research on rural gentrification, I also taught on an introduction to geography module.

March 2020-March 2022

MSc Geography at Leicester University

Research design, methodology, and statistics. Trained to use SPSS statistical analysis software, and its open source counterpart, JASP.

Sept. 2018-March 2020

PERSONAL PROJECTS

most-urls

Efficient data pipeline to process ~2.4 billion urls from Common Crawl releases, covering most of the known World Wide Web.

July 2025.

october

Calendar generator written in Typst.

Oct. 2024.

nth

Package for formatting ordinal numbers in Typst, a Rust- based typesetting system.

Sept. 2023. Released v1.0.1 in June 2024.

newposte-rs

Small Rust tool for generating YAML front matter for use with the Jekyll site generator.

Nov. 2023.

unicode feed symbol

Proposal to encode the Universal Feed Symbol in Unicode 15.1. 10th Nov. 2022

leicester.bike

Javascript web app which showed the nearest rental bike station in Leicester and number of bikes available. Hosted on AWS S3 + Cloudfront. Now offline.

July 2022-2023

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