Douglas Gibbons
Los Gatos, California, United States
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Top SchoolDouglas Gibbons is a technical leader and hands-on engineer with 13 years of experience based in Los Gatos, California. He blends systems-minded problem solving with practical test automation, exemplified by his work creating a Python-based test framework for the widely used wait-for-it.sh utility to validate edge cases and cross-environment behavior. Trained in mechanical engineering and engineering mathematics at Brunel University, he brings an analytical, measurement-driven approach to software quality and reliability. Colleagues know him for pairing leadership with day-to-day engineering—mentoring teams while still rolling up his sleeves to improve CI and testing pipelines. He has a knack for turning informal utilities into robust, testable tools that reduce operational risk in distributed environments.
12 years of coding experience
Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics A-Levels, Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics A-Levels at Thomas MillsDebenham High SchoolMechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at Brunel University
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Github Skills (8)
unit-testing10
python10
scripting10
test-automation10
testing10
bash9
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vishnubob/wait-for-it
Mar 2017 - Aug 2020
Pure bash script to test and wait on the availability of a TCP host and port
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:23 commits, 11 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Douglas focused on implementing a test framework for the `wait-for-it.sh` script. Their contributions involved creating a Python-based testing suite, defining test cases to validate the script's behavior under different scenarios, including argument parsing, help output, and timeout conditions. The user added tests to cover different failure cases and command execution, ensuring robust functionality of the utility. The work also includes making the tests compatible with different environments.
waitavailabilityhostbashbash-script
douglas-gibbons/visibility
Jun 2013 - Jul 2017
Contributions:38 commits, 8 PRs, 23 pushes in 4 years 1 month
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