Edmund Dipple
Lead Engineering Consultant At Sourced Group at Sourced Group an Amdocs Company
Bridgend, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEdmund Dipple is a Lead Engineering Consultant with 13 years of experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines, automated configuration management, and scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure. He combines hands-on CloudOps and DevOps leadership—working with Windows and Linux environments, TeamCity/Jenkins/VSTS/Octopus, Terraform, Ansible, Python, NodeJS and PowerShell—to deliver resilient production platforms and 24x7 support. A long-time open-source contributor, Edmund has extended influential projects like Serverspec and Specinfra to improve Windows infrastructure testing (adding IIS, service and file-version checks) and authored a Terraform Validator module. He also brings practical experience in recruitment, technical training and pushing TDD into infrastructure code, reflecting a focus on quality and repeatability across teams. Based in Bridgend, Wales, he pairs consulting breadth with deep implementation skills that often surface in behind-the-scenes automation and testing libraries used by others.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computing, First-class honours, Bachelor's Degree, Computing, First-class honours at University of HertfordshireHigh School, Maths, Physics, Biology and IT, High School, Maths, Physics, Biology and IT at St Edward's, CheltenhamHigh School, Mathematics, High School, Mathematics at Farmor's School, Fairford
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automations10
serverspec10
testing9
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imp7
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Github contributions (5)
mizzy/serverspec
Jan 2014 - Mar 2014
RSpec tests for your servers configured by CFEngine, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Itamae or anything else even by hand
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:15 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Edmund primarily focused on enhancing the Serverspec testing framework, adding new resource types for Windows features, IIS websites, and IIS application pools. They implemented checks for website features, physical paths, and app pool associations. Additionally, the user modified existing resources to include features like checking service start modes and file versions, reflecting a focus on expanding the capabilities of Serverspec for comprehensive infrastructure testing.
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mizzy/specinfra
Jan 2014 - Apr 2014
Command Execution Framework for serverspec, itamae and so on
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:20 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Edmund focused on enhancing the `specinfra` project by implementing new features and improving existing functionality related to Windows platform support. Key contributions include adding the ability to check for installed Windows features, services and IIS components, along with related commands, and also adding functionality to check file versions. They implemented new PowerShell functions, optimized existing ones, and improved the accuracy of existing features like service checking. They also refined existing code, and cached results to improve performance, and added new tests.
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