Amias Channer
Test Consultant at Qxperts | Part of Xebia
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAmias Channer is a seasoned Test and Security Engineer based in Amsterdam with over two decades of development experience and a decade focused on security and test consultancy. He blends deep Unix/Linux expertise, DevOps and CI/CD automation with practical cryptography, IAM and secrets management to harden high-security development environments for enterprises and governments. He’s delivered secure development platforms and zero-trust IAM models for banks, stock-exchange access providers and emergency services, and has built tooling and automation for blockchain projects like IOHK’s jormungandr. A confident self-starter and mentor, he runs freelance security engagements and consults for Xebia, pairing hands-on engineering with proposal-winning commercial experience. Outside work he’s a keen cyclist, swimmer, cook, father and DJ, a mix that reflects curiosity and disciplined creativity.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
A level, Computing, A level, Computing at St Brendans
French
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Github Skills (19)
configuration-management10
bash10
automation10
script10
automations10
devops10
blockchain9
cross-compiling6
gnu6
assert6
windows6
linux6
perl6
gcc6
unit-testing6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cardano-foundation/jormungandr
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
privacy voting blockchain node
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits in 18 days
Contributions summary:Amias primarily focused on creating and improving the setup and demo scripts for the `jormungandr` blockchain node. They developed scripts for key pair generation, node startup/shutdown, and topology configuration. Key contributions include a more comprehensive setup tool with automated key generation, configuration, and node orchestration. The user also updated the scripts for better session management and fixed issues related to node numbering and genesis file patching.
blockchain
amias-channer/obs-scripts
Oct 2022 - Mar 2024
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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