Arthur Barr
Software Architect at IBM
Basingstoke and Deane, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorArthur Barr is a Software Architect with 12 years’ experience specialising in cloud architecture, DevOps and agile delivery, focused on containers, messaging and continuous delivery. Based in Basingstoke, he combines hands-on container engineering (notably contributing to IBM’s mq-container images) with pragmatic CI/CD and testing improvements that streamline builds and dependency management. He’s fluent in Kubernetes and Docker patterns and brings deep practical knowledge of messaging protocols like MQ and MQTT for resilient distributed systems. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex operational requirements into reproducible, secure container images and delivery pipelines. A detail-oriented practitioner, he’s as comfortable adjusting low-level image users and file layouts as he is shaping overall delivery architecture.
12 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (14)
docker10
dockers10
build-automation9
testing9
golang9
go9
windows6
ibm-mq6
rhel6
shell6
hub6
github6
database6
virtualization6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ibm-messaging/mq-container
Sep 2017 - Aug 2022
Container images for IBM® MQ
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 320 commits in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Arthur primarily focused on modifying the container images for IBM MQ, including changes to user IDs, group IDs, and the file structure. They also re-introduced a vendor directory, indicating potential dependency management work. Furthermore, the user added dynamic image name setting in tests, demonstrating a focus on testing and build processes.
golangdocker-imagedockercontainer-imagesprometheus-metrics
ibm-messaging/mq-chef
Feb 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 12 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 2 months
cookbookinstallingibm-mqibmchef-resource
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