Christopher Schollar Email & Phone Number

City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Freelance full stack python and javascript development and devops.Some projects I have worked onClient: NanolabsProject: HL7 data connectDeveloped a server for Ampath to connect medical testing equipment andlistener devices. Including an API and frontend to display and control connections.Handled development, deployment and testing.Tools: Python, Dash, Redis, Pytest, socketsSkills: Solution Design, Software Development, Client Management, Testplanning… Show more Freelance full stack python and javascript development and devops.Some projects I have worked onClient: NanolabsProject: HL7 data connectDeveloped a server for Ampath to connect medical testing equipment andlistener devices. Including an API and frontend to display and control connections.Handled development, deployment and testing.Tools: Python, Dash, Redis, Pytest, socketsSkills: Solution Design, Software Development, Client Management, Testplanning and developmentClient: Dramatic Arts and Literary Rights Organisation (DALRO)Project: rights catalogueManaged the development of a web catalogue for the Dramatic AndLiterary Rights Organisation. Providing a high quality search by leveraging solr and lucene. Created deployment processes with ansible to deploy solr, nginx and angular.https://catalogue.dalro.co.za/Tools: Nginx, Solr, Angular, Ansible, Amazon LightsailSkills: Solution Design, Project Management, Software Development,Deployment Management, Budgeting, Client ManagementClient: TsoloProject: Tsolo Blob StoreHelped design and implement software to back up data from a ceph storage cluster to tape. Ensuring redundant copies of data can be written and read to/fromindependent tapes.Tools: PostgreSQL, Python, FAST API, Docker, PlantUMLSkills: Solution Design, Software Development, Testing and Development,System Integration Show less

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Commissioning beamformer instrument for MeerKAT Telescope; captureddata and confirmed data products meet scientific requirements with team ofcommissioning scientistsArchive Development; metadata extraction, verification and storage in a Solrdatabase, data transfer and data lifecycle management, archive search pagewith Javascript and archive API developmentWeb/Network Security; authentication and authorisation provision for SARAOweb services using Keycloak… Show more Commissioning beamformer instrument for MeerKAT Telescope; captureddata and confirmed data products meet scientific requirements with team ofcommissioning scientistsArchive Development; metadata extraction, verification and storage in a Solrdatabase, data transfer and data lifecycle management, archive search pagewith Javascript and archive API developmentWeb/Network Security; authentication and authorisation provision for SARAOweb services using Keycloak, SAML, LDAP and OpenId; deployment of webapplication DMZ subnet, firewall configuration with Firehol firewallCluster Management and Service Orchestration; managed a Nomad andProxmox cluster, set up deployment processes for applications onto virtualmachines and servers using Docker containers, Ansible and JenkinsApplication Configuration and Management; configured and managedopensource software such as Solr, Harbor, Mattermost, Dspace andKeycloak on linux servers using Docker and systemdLeadership; Mentored and managed projects of junior team membersRelationship Management; managed the interface between the ScienceProcessing Team and other teams within SARAO, SARAO partners andusers. Managing expectations, discussing operational issues and findingmutually agreeable solutions within our resource constraints. Show less

Developed Long Street Backpackers website; Development and hosting of aVue Javascript application for web and mobilehttp://www.longstreetbackpackers.com