Andrew Crump
Owner Managing Director at Emerging Property
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarAndrew Crump is an owner and managing director based in London with 24 years of experience blending technical delivery and business leadership. He has a strong engineering background evidenced by substantive open-source contributions to Cloud Foundry—working on cloud controller back-end features like quota management and log rate limiting—and to developer tooling such as the Foodcritic linter and Cloud Foundry documentation. Comfortable moving between hands-on code, technical writing, and client-facing consulting, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliability, operational clarity and maintainability. His career spans senior consulting at Hitachi/Celerant and running his own company, showing an appetite for both enterprise transformation and product-level problem solving. Notably, his work often targets the less-visible but critical areas—rate limits, validations and troubleshooting docs—that materially improve platform resilience and developer experience.
24 years of coding experience
Github Skills (20)
markdown10
cloud-foundry10
back-end-development10
resource-management10
ruby10
chef-client10
code-analysis10
markdown-it10
management10
linting10
chef-solo10
documentation10
quota10
testing9
develop9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Foodcritic/foodcritic
Nov 2001 - Dec 2015
Lint tool for Chef cookbooks.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:408 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 14 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on enhancing the Foodcritic tool, a linter for Chef cookbooks. Their contributions included implementing features to support execute resources with name attributes, modifying rules, and improving directory handling. The user also identified and corrected whitespace issues in the output and made substantial improvements to rule implementations for better maintainability and accuracy.
textlintlintcookbookrecipesrecipe
cloudfoundry/docs-dev-guide
Jun 2019 - Sep 2022
Documentation for application developers who want to deploy their applications to Cloud Foundry
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:16 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the repository by updating and adding documentation. Their commits focused on incorporating log rate limit information into various documentation topics, including those related to app logging, running tasks, deploying large apps, and troubleshooting. Additionally, they updated existing documentation related to app output in multiple processes and made corrections to troubleshooting guides, improving clarity and accuracy.
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