Andy Beverley
Chief Executive Officer at Simplelists
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndy Beverley is a technology entrepreneur and CEO with 15+ years building secure, pragmatic software and services from startups to defence-grade systems. He founded Simplelists and co-leads Ctrl O, applying open standards and ethical business principles to help public and private sector organisations share data securely and cost-effectively. A First Class Computer Systems and Telecommunications graduate, he spent a decade as a Royal Navy engineering officer delivering and managing complex IT on an aircraft carrier and in deployed environments, experience that informs his focus on resilient, operationally proven solutions. Andy is also an active open-source contributor to tooling like the Rex automation framework and the nwipe disk eraser, bringing hands-on DevOps and backend expertise to commercial products. Notably, he combines frontline systems engineering with product leadership, turning real-world operational challenges into scalable software businesses.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Warwickshire CollegeBachelor of Science with First Class Honours, Computer Systems and Telecommunications Engineering, First Class, Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours, Computer Systems and Telecommunications Engineering, First Class at The University of Salford
German
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Github Skills (26)
debian10
configuration-management10
linux10
c1110
perl10
c1710
automations10
devops10
system-programming9
signal-handling9
augeas9
front-end-development9
automation9
infrastructure-as-code9
rex8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
RexOps/Rex
Jan 2015 - Jul 2017
Rex, the friendly automation framework
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:21 commits, 23 PRs, 49 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Andy focused on enhancing the Rex automation framework. Their contributions include implementing and refining package configuration commands using Perl and debconf, specifically for Debian systems. They also added password management functionality on Linux systems, and optimized the Augeas module, and included several bug fixes. Their work primarily involved modifying the Rex core, and supporting modules.
automation-frameworkrexinfrastructure-as-codeinfrastructure-automationautomation
martijnvanbrummelen/nwipe
Sep 2013 - Mar 2014
nwipe secure disk eraser
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 5 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the `nwipe` project's core functionality by modifying the source code, enhancing the user interface, and improving the overall logging and status reporting features. They added a status screen to the GUI and added additional details, and addressed the incorrect display of serial numbers. The user also added a way to print current status when the signal SIGUSR1 is received.
securediskeraser
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