Alex Gittings
Solutions Architect at OpsMill
Reading, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Gittings is a Solutions Architect with nine years’ experience designing and delivering network automation and integration solutions across service providers and enterprise customers. After studying Computer Networks at Birmingham City University and gaining early hands-on lab and tooling experience at Cisco, he has specialised in network-as-code, CI/CD and automated testing while building and maintaining integrations like IP Fabric’s Ansible Collection, Zabbix integration and a NetBox plugin. He blends pre-sales and field-facing roles—crafting tailored demos, proof-of-concepts and RFP responses—with product feedback to shape roadmaps and technical direction. An active open-source contributor to NetBox, his backend work on API and UI filtering and search demonstrates a focus on data modelling and usability for network management. Based in Reading, he runs his own consultancy while continuing to help organisations modernise operations through automation and pragmatic architecture.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Birmingham City UniversityGCSE, A-Levels, GCSE, A-Levels at Cheslyn Hay High School
English
Github Skills (14)
network-automation10
data-serialization10
netbox10
api10
python10
apidoc10
django10
serialization10
database-management9
network9
infrastructure-management8
dc7
cab7
cableready7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
netbox-community/netbox
Feb 2022 - May 2022
The premier source of truth powering network automation. Open source under Apache 2. Try NetBox Cloud free: https://netboxlabs.com/free-netbox-cloud/
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 27 commits, 13 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the NetBox project by implementing features and fixing bugs related to the API and UI. They worked on enhancing the functionality of the application, specifically in areas such as filtering for contact assignments, and the tag table search function. Their commits involved modifying serializers, filtersets, and table definitions, indicating a focus on backend development and data presentation.
netmikopythontruthsotinfrastructure-management
netbox-community/Device-Type-Library-Import
Feb 2020 - Sep 2022
This library is intended to assist with importing device and module types into NetBox from the NetBox Community DeviceType-Library
Contributions:6 reviews, 28 commits, 28 PRs in 2 years 7 months
netboxnetbox-devicetype-library
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