David Kitchen
Senior Solutions Architect at Carnival UK (P&O Cruises & Cunard)
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDavid Kitchen is a Senior Solutions Architect with 13 years of experience designing and delivering enterprise-grade commerce and cloud solutions, currently shaping architecture for P&O Cruises and Cunard at Carnival UK. A Chartered IT Professional and member of the British Computer Society and Institute of Leadership, he blends hands-on backend development (notably contributions to Drupal Commerce 2.x) with strategic platform guidance from roles at BigCommerce, Centarro and Johnson & Johnson. He founded CommitteeHQ to simplify meetings, champions open-source documentation (Platform.sh) and has a track record of adding pragmatic features like order line-item pricing and tax importers. Based in London, he pairs technical depth with people leadership—evidenced by his volunteer role as District Commissioner for Brent Scouts, where he leads 300 volunteers and 900 youth and earned an Award for Merit. His background in chemistry and an Associate of King's College reflect an unusual mix of analytical rigor and humanities perspective that informs his systems thinking.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of King's College, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES, Associate of King's College, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES at King's College London
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Github Skills (11)
drupal10
php10
entity-framework10
solr10
redis10
commerce10
documentation10
multiview9
pageviews9
sql8
yaml7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
drupalcommerce/commerce
Sep 2014 - Dec 2015
Commerce 2.x development
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 6 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:David's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the core functionality of the Drupal Commerce 2.x project. They made modifications to tax-related components, specifically `CommerceTaxTypeImporter`, and introduced new entities and fields for line items, including quantity, unit price, and total price. Furthermore, the user refactored order-related code by incorporating the line items' references, while adding an order total field. They also worked on providing views data for the price field.
commerce2-xdrupal-commercedrupal
platformsh/platformsh-docs
Aug 2014 - Nov 2014
Platform.sh documentation. Templates available at https://github.com/platformsh-templates/
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:10 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the repository by documenting the use of Redis and Apache Solr with Drupal 7.x on the Platform.sh platform. Their work involved writing instructions for module and library installation, configuring Platform variables, and adding code snippets for settings.php modifications. They also added a table of services (which was later reverted) and updated information regarding different options of Redis.
platformsh
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