Gareth Coles
Engineering Director at Delio
Greater Cardiff Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGareth Coles is an Engineering Director with 14 years of hands-on experience spanning testing, delivery management, and cloud-backed infrastructure, now leading engineering at Delio. He combines a strong QA and business-analysis background with practical DevOps chops—automating CI/CD, Docker builds, and cloud deployments for open-source Discord and Python community bots. Known for turning stakeholder needs into clear technical requirements, Gareth excels at stabilizing releases and streamlining deployment workflows across teams. His career progression from Test Lead to Engineering Director reflects a blend of meticulous defect management and strategic delivery leadership. Based in the Greater Cardiff Area, he brings a customer-facing mindset to technical decisions and a knack for making complex integrations predictable and repeatable.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Internet Computing, BSc (Hons) Internet Computing at University of the West of England
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Github Skills (31)
docker10
deploying10
messaging10
python10
back-end-development10
discord-js10
discord10
command-line-interface10
bots10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
message-system10
message-handler10
googlebot10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
python-discord/bot
Feb 2018 - Nov 2018
The community bot for the Python Discord community
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:233 commits, 35 PRs, 155 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Gareth primarily focused on building and maintaining the Python Discord bot, contributing to its core functionality. They set up the foundational bot framework, including the creation of cogs for core commands, code evaluation, logging, and security measures. Furthermore, they made infrastructure improvements, added features like an announcement subscription system, and implemented RabbitMQ integration.
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python-discord/sir-lancebot
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
A Discord bot started as a community project for Hacktoberfest 2018, later evolved to an introductory project for aspiring new developers starting out with open source development.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:31 commits, 3 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Gareth primarily focused on automating and streamlining the deployment process for the Discord bot. Their contributions centered around modifying the `docker/build.sh` script to include Docker image building, pushing to Docker Hub, and deploying to a server using `pepper`. They also worked on integrating Azure deployment, including the necessary modifications to the `deploy-azure.sh` script. A significant portion of their work revolved around configuring and debugging the deployment workflow, demonstrating a strong emphasis on infrastructure and CI/CD.
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