Adam James
Technical Director at Transitiv Technologies Ltd
Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam James is a Technical Director with 18 years' experience specialising in open source infrastructure, systems hardening and high-availability architectures. He blends hands-on engineering in Ruby, Perl and Python with deep Linux, Postfix and MySQL operational expertise, and has led installation, configuration and bespoke customisation projects across enterprise environments. As founder-level technical lead at Transitiv Technologies since 2011 he drives pragmatic, secure solutions from design through production support. He is an active open-source contributor to the widely used Icinga2 monitoring platform, improving its backend time parsing and test coverage—an indicator of his attention to reliability and edge-case robustness. Based in Milton Keynes, he pairs consultancy experience with a formal Open University BSc, and often surfaces non-obvious system defects before they reach users.
18 years of coding experience
BSc (Hons), Open Degree, 2.1, BSc (Hons), Open Degree, 2.1 at The Open University
Github Skills (6)
monitoring10
icinga10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
testing10
rest-api8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
Icinga/icinga2
Feb 2016 - Apr 2022
The core of our monitoring platform with a powerful configuration language and REST API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 4 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Icinga2 monitoring platform. Their work involved fixing parsing errors in the `LegacyTimePeriod` class, specifically addressing how dates in the `YYYY-MM-DD` format were processed. They also implemented unit tests for the time period parser, ensuring the robustness and reliability of the time specification handling. Additionally, the user made changes to allow arguments with spaces in the `check_nscp_api` plugin.
configuration-languagemonitoringrestrest-apiicinga
metabrainz/ansible-role-haproxy
Mar 2022 - Mar 2024
Ansible role to install, configure and manage HAProxy on Ubuntu systems
Contributions:3 PRs, 22 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years
ansiblehaproxyconfigureansible-roletower
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