Brett Jones
CKAN Tech Team at Link Digital
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBrett Jones is a seasoned infrastructure and DevOps engineer with three decades of global experience across major tech hubs from Wellington to Berlin, and deep expertise in middleware, performance monitoring, and build automation. He has delivered mission-critical systems for banks and enterprises—most notably architecting the Fast Settlements System for Australia’s New Payments Platform—and has hands-on experience across WebLogic, IBM MQ/IIB, AppDynamics, Datadog and cloud orchestration tools. Currently contributing part-time to the core CKAN project, he blends DevOps automation with Python tooling to improve deployment, Docker-based workflows and documentation for a widely used open-source data portal. Brett’s background spans vendor, banking and energy sectors (BEA, Sun, HP, Reserve Bank of Australia, Saudi Aramco), where he built bespoke monitoring and zero-downtime deployment solutions and mentored engineering teams. He brings a pragmatic combination of systems-level troubleshooting, scripting-led automation and clear technical writing—evident in his CKAN docs and Docker orchestration contributions.
6 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Degree; B.A; B.Sc, Computer Science; Physiology, Degree; B.A; B.Sc, Computer Science; Physiology at Victoria University of Wellington
Github Skills (18)
docker10
scripting10
docker-compose10
dockers10
ckan10
script10
sh10
shell10
devops10
documentation10
postgresql9
python9
urllib8
supervisord8
api-rest4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ckan/ckan-docker
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Scripts and images to run CKAN using Docker Compose
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:28 reviews, 177 commits, 70 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Brett primarily focused on setting up and configuring the environment for CKAN within Docker. Their commits involve modifying `prerun.py` scripts for database and Solr connection checks, plugin configurations, and sysadmin user creation. The contributions also include changes to shell scripts (`start_ckan.sh`, `start_datapusher.sh`) and configuration files to manage the overall application startup and deployment process. These changes demonstrate a focus on automation and environment setup for the CKAN platform.
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ckan/ckan
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data. It powers catalog.data.gov, open.canada.ca/data, data.humdata.org among many other sites.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:97 reviews, 87 commits, 79 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Brett primarily contributed to the project's documentation, making numerous updates and revisions to various documentation files. These updates included improvements to the command-line interface (CLI) documentation, deployment guides, and installation instructions, especially regarding the Docker setup. The user also updated the "getting started" guide and made minor corrections, enhancing the overall clarity and accuracy of the project's documentation.
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