Chris Hird
Owner at Shield Advanced Solutions Ltd
Caledon, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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SeniorChris Hird is a seasoned entrepreneur and availability specialist with over 20 years focused on high-availability and recovery solutions for the IBM i platform, plus tools for Windows and UNIX. As founder and long-time owner of Shield Advanced Solutions Ltd (and predecessor companies), he has built commercial products and led teams across the UK and Canada, growing businesses of up to 30 employees. A veteran C programmer with roots at IBM UK, Chris combines deep platform-level technical expertise with practical product and business development skills around DR planning, security, and operations. He actively contributes to open-source initiatives for IBM i, helping global clients keep critical systems available and secure. An underappreciated strength is his ability to translate low-level systems knowledge into resilient, customer-facing products that simplify complex availability challenges.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (64)
cobol10
rpgle10
iseries10
code-injection10
pos9
aix9
prebuild9
bazaar8
gravity8
vscode8
vscode-extension8
closure8
tarball7
pratt-parser7
management7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisHird/nconf
Jul 2021 - May 2024
NEMS Configurator (NConf) for PHP7.0+ Enterprise Nagios configurator
Contributions:1 release, 21 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 9 months
configuratornconfphpnemsnagios
ChrisHird/ZLIB
Jun 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 11 commits, 1 PR in 11 months
ibm-ipackage-managerdomainibmzlib
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