Bear Giles
C And Java Developer at Coyote Song
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBear Giles is a seasoned C and Java developer with 12+ years of professional experience and a career dating back to early C/Unix work in the 1990s, now consulting under Coyote Song from Boulder, Colorado. He combines deep database expertise—advanced PostgreSQL (tablespaces, triggers, server-side extensions), PL/Java and custom PostgreSQL extensions—with hands-on DevOps skills in Docker, Ansible, AWS, TestContainers and multi-gigabit homelab networking. His security experience includes Kerberos/IdP and open-source LDAP work, and he has practical experience migrating systems to AWS RDS/PostGIS and lifting legacy stacks into modern Java toolchains. An active open-source contributor, he’s added support to commons-compress, enhanced ext2/3/4 dump tooling, and authored PostgreSQL extensions for OpenSSL BIGNUMs and X.509 types. Outside work he mirrors corporate infrastructure in a homelab that can run substantial Hadoop clusters and is using it to deliberately learn emerging tech like Proxmox-driven Kubernetes, IPv6 and Terraform. He holds a BS in Physics/Mathematics, a lapsed US Secret clearance, and maintains a personal GitHub (coyotesong) showing ongoing experimental projects.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
MS (incomplete), Computer Science, MS (incomplete), Computer Science at University of Colorado BoulderBS, Physics, BS, Physics at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (88)
parser10
jsoup10
testing10
databases10
openldap10
junit10
docker-container10
integration-testing10
css-selectors10
docker-compose10
html-parser10
test-automation10
selenium-webdriver10
jvm10
java10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
beargiles/project-student
Jan 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:30 commits in 9 months
beargiles/postgresql-pljava-docker
Mar 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:9 PRs, 106 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 10 months
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