Martin Fitzpatrick

I'm a self-taught programmer with over experience dating back to the days of the ZX Spectrum and Sam Coupé.

I am best known for creating the Python GUIs website, where I have written many tutorials, books & courses about using Python to build desktop UIs.

Looking for help with Python GUI development? I provide Python GUI consulting services.

I have a degree in Medical Science (BMedSc), Masters of Research (MRes) and PhD in Data Science. I don't really do this any more, but if you talk science at me I will understand what you're saying.

I currently spend my time writing Python books and tutorials and tinkering in my workshop. If you have an interesting project you would like to discuss please feel free to email me at martin@martinfitzpatrick.com

I code most happily in Python but have also dabbled in C, MATLAB, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Prolog, R, Sam BASIC and z80 ASM.

Originally from the UK I now live in Amersfoort, the Netherlands.

Career

Oct 2016-Present Python Developer, Data Scientist & Tutor Freelance/contractor Short and long-term contract projects primarily focused on building Python GUIs with PyQt, robotics and the scientific Python stack (matplotlib and pandas) for data analysis, machine learning and visualization.

Jan 2017-Dec 2019 Hotjar Ltd. Python Developer, Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead

Oct 2014-Oct 2016 Postdoctoral Researcher (Bioinformatics) University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands Proteomic data analysis. Using the scientific Python stack, matplotlib and pandas to perform routine analyses and develop automatable workflows.

Services

Product prototyping and development.
Product feasibility consulting and platform advice.
Rapid Minimum Viable Product development — Django, Flask, PyQt.
Desktop GUI application development — PyQt, wxWidgets.
Robotics and electronics, 3D printing
Custom data analysis and visualisation — numpy, scipy, matplotlib, d3.js.
Machine learning, predictive models and insights — scikit-learn, scikit-image.
Automated workflow/pipeline construction for reproducible analyses.
Web application development — Flask, Django, JQuery, AngularJS.

Academic Publications

Pathomx: an interactive workflow-based tool for the analysis of metabolomic data. Martin A. Fitzpatrick, Catherine M. McGrath, Stephen P. Young. BMC Bioinformatics pmid:25490956 doi:10.1186/s12859-014-0396-9 (October 2014)

Metabolic profiling predicts response to anti-TNFα therapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Sabrina R Kapoor, Andrew Filer, Martin A Fitzpatrick, Benjamin A Fisher, Peter C Taylor, Christopher D Buckley, Iain B McInnes, Karim Raza, Stephen P Young Arthritis & Rheumatism pmid:23460124 doi:10.1002/art.37921 (March 2013)

Metabolomics – a novel window into inflammatory disease. Martin A. Fitzpatrick, Stephen P. Young Swiss medical weekly pmid:23348753 doi:10.4414/smw.2013.13743 (January 2013)

Metabolomics in the Analysis of Inflammatory Diseases Sabrina Kapoor, Martin Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth Clay, Rachel Bayley, Graham R. Wallace, Stephen P. Young InTech ISBN:978-953-51-0046-1 (February 2012)

A complete list of publications, abstracts and theses are available here.

Experience

Web Site development (Django, Flask, Pelican) and front-end UI (HTML, CSS, Vue, JQuery, Angular).
APIs RESTful API design and development (Django rest framework, Flask)
Databases Relational database design and management (Postgres, MySQL) including ORM methods (Django, SQLAlchemy) and search platforms (Lucene/Solr)
Data Data processing and handling (pandas, numpy, scipy)
Visualisation Plotting figures and interactive dashboards (matplotlib, d3.js)
Statistics Standard parametric and non-parametric statistical tests (numpy, scipy)
Machine Learning linear models (PCA, PLS), decision trees and clustering algorithms (scikit-learn, scipy, Eigenvector PLS Toolkit)
GUI Graphical interface development (PyQt, PySide, wxWidgets)
Collaboration Experience working with international groups, both locally and remotely to successfully complete projects. Frequently collaborate with other programmers on open-source projects via Github.
Revision Control Git (preferred), SVN
Coding Style Adherence to PEP8 (pylint, pyflakes, PyCharm)
CI & Testing Experience using Jenkins CI on open-source projects
Documentation Pandoc (and readthedocs.org), asciidoc, markdown

Education

2011-2016 PhD. School of Immunity & Infection, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Metabolic profiles of differentiated human macrophages and their influence in chronic inflammatory disease (Wellcome Trust Combined Training Programme)

2010-2011 MRes. Biomedical Research School of Immunity & Infection, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom The Immune System in Health & Disease (Wellcome Trust Combined Training Programme). Consisting of two short research projects: “Tracking viral entry into target cells by virological and immunological methods” and “Do differentiated macrophages display distinct metabolic phenotypes reflecting their different functions?”

2007-2010 BMedSc. (Hons) Medical Science (Cellular and Molecular Pathology) (1st) University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Dissertation topic: "What is the impact of vaccination on the development of adaptive immunity to Non-typhoidal Salmonella?"