Colin Fowler
Head Of Site Reliability Engineering at Yoti
England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolColin Fowler is a veteran site reliability and systems engineering leader with 16 years of hands-on experience and a PhD in Computer Science, currently heading Site Reliability Engineering at Yoti. He combines deep low-level programming skills in C/C++, Python, Bash and x86 assembly with extensive Unix/Linux infrastructure expertise developed across academic and enterprise environments. Colin has led cloud and SRE transformations, built resilient services and automated operations at scale, and earlier managed complex campus infrastructures and teaching labs at Trinity College Dublin. An active contributor to open-source cloud tooling, he implemented FWaaS v2.0 features in the gophercloud OpenStack SDK, reflecting a practical focus on API-driven networking and testing. Based in England, he’s as comfortable optimising multi-core, low-level code as he is designing HA systems and disaster recovery for production fleets.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS Hons), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS Hons), Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin
English, German, Irish, Italian
Github Skills (7)
go10
openstack10
api10
sdk10
apidoc10
testing9
networking8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gophercloud/gophercloud
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Gophercloud: an OpenStack SDK for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 31 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Colin primarily contributed to the implementation and testing of Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) v2.0 features within the OpenStack SDK for Go. Their work involved creating, deleting, and getting firewall rules. They modified code in multiple files, including requests, results, testing, and acceptance tests, and made use of testing frameworks. The commits demonstrate a focus on API interactions and extending the SDK's functionality for OpenStack networking.
golanggophercloudsdkopenstackopenstack-sdk
Elethiomel/dynamodb-lock
Aug 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.