Danny Staple
Cloud Consultant at Orionrobots
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDanny Staple is a Cloud Consultant and automation specialist with 15 years of experience designing and delivering CI/CD, observability and infrastructure-as-code solutions across media, telecom and cloud environments. He blends hands-on engineering—from low-level debugging with Wireshark and bootloader work on set-top boxes to Kubernetes, Terraform and Python-based tooling—with mentoring and knowledge-sharing as a director at ODM Solutions and owner of the OrionRobots community. His background includes large-scale CI/CD platforms at Cisco and Sky, Kubernetes/ GitOps implementations for enterprise clients, and contributions to notable open-source projects such as enhancements to IPython. Comfortable diving into hardware integrations and embedded systems as well as cloud-native stacks, he has a track record of turning complex operational requirements into repeatable, automated delivery pipelines. He’s also an author and robotics educator, bringing a DIY engineering mindset and a practical iterative process to team-led delivery.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSc 2:1 (Hons), Applied Computing with Psychology, BSc 2:1 (Hons), Applied Computing with Psychology at Middlesex UniversityCrypt Grammar School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
python10
jupyter10
youtube-api10
ipython10
testing9
printing9
unit-testing9
notebook9
rspec9
fileio9
pycharm9
refactoring8
documentation7
lambda6
php6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
ipython/ipython
Oct 2012 - Nov 2012
Official repository for IPython itself. Other repos in the IPython organization contain things like the website, documentation builds, etc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:Danny focused on enhancing the `YouTubeVideo` class within the IPython library. Their contributions involved adding functionality for time offsets, refactoring the code to accept generic YouTube API parameters, removing unnecessary imports, and correcting minor mistakes. They also updated the documentation and improved code formatting based on style guidelines.
ipythonjupyterdata-sciencenotebookpython
orionrobots/pygamezero_orrery
Apr 2019 - Aug 2025
A model of the Solar system using PyGameZero. Made for fun.
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
pygamepythonsolar-system
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