Don Hardman is a consulting software engineer and founder with six years of hands-on experience building backend and DevOps tooling from Phuket, Thailand. He favors KISS principles to turn complex problems into pragmatic solutions, focusing on high-impact fixes and reliable delivery. At Manticore Search he contributed to CI/CD, Docker image workflows, and build-system refactors for an open-source search engine positioned as an Elasticsearch alternative. As founder of Muvon Limited he pairs entrepreneurial drive with practical engineering, and he is completing software engineering studies at Zero To Mastery. His GitHub motto, "Amat Victoria Curam," reflects a disciplined approach: thorough preparation yields dependable production systems.
6 years of coding experience
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Zero To Mastery Academy
Easy to use open source fast database for search | Good alternative to Elasticsearch now | Drop-in replacement for E in the ELK soon
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
Contributions:1 release, 65 reviews, 6 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Don's contributions primarily centered around building and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline and related build processes for the Manticore Search project. This included creating and updating scripts to build and push Docker images to ghcr.io for testing purposes. The user also made changes to the build system, introducing version locking for dependencies and extracting common logic for version parsing. Furthermore, the user touched on the backend by modifying Buddy-related code, updating paths, and fixing potential issues, and refactoring build system.
Contributions:8 releases, 31 commits, 20 pushes in 5 months
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