Bailey Stewart
Principal Software Enigneer I at Booking.com
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBailey Stewart is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building resilient developer platforms and deployment tooling, currently based in Amsterdam and leading infrastructure efforts at Booking.com. He blends hands-on SRE and platform engineering—spanning Kubernetes, Bazel migrations, CI/CD, and multi-language build systems—with team leadership and developer experience advocacy. At Booking.com he led migrations (Harness.io, Bazel) that reduced lead time to change across hundreds of services and managed teams scaling from three to eight engineers. Prior roles include founding platform teams at Superbalist and practical DevOps work at takealot and Yola, where he automated support workflows and modernized release engineering. An active backend contributor, he’s improved the popular django-crispy-forms project to support Bootstrap 4, showing attention to UX details in form rendering as well as robust test fixes. He pairs technical depth with a focus on observability, developer empowerment, and ethical engineering practices.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Cape TownHudson Park High School
English, Afrikaans, Dutch
Github Skills (9)
template-tags10
templater10
template-engine10
bootstrap10
python10
django10
html9
css9
pytest8
Programming languages (34)
Github contributions (5)
django-crispy-forms/django-crispy-forms
Oct 2015 - May 2019
The best way to have DRY Django forms. The app provides a tag and filter that lets you quickly render forms in a div format while providing an enormous amount of capability to configure and control the rendered HTML.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 36 PRs, 29 pushes in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Bailey primarily focused on enhancing the Django-Crispy-Forms library to support Bootstrap 4, including porting and adapting templates, and modifying code to align with Bootstrap 4's styling and class naming conventions. They addressed issues related to form rendering, layout, and the use of CSS classes within the Bootstrap 4 framework. The user implemented changes to ensure compatibility with Bootstrap 4's grid system and other UI elements, as well as fixing associated tests.
django-forms
zoidyzoidzoid/docker-create-react-app
Oct 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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