Gareth Collins
Account Executive at Data#3
Greater Brisbane Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolGareth Collins is an Account Executive with 13 years’ experience helping enterprise customers simplify support contracts and drive customer success across hybrid IT environments. He specialises in contract consolidation, vendor management and lifecycle planning to reduce downtime, free up internal teams for innovation, and translate technical risk into concise business decisions. Before Data#3 he sold complex services and mission-critical support at Hewlett-Packard, managing multi-million dollar targets and CxO relationships. Gareth also contributes as a back-end developer on open-source OSGi web projects, adding virtual host and connector support to core server integrations—an uncommon blend of commercial sales acumen and hands-on technical contribution. Based in Greater Brisbane, he combines proactive thought leadership with a practical focus on reducing the hidden costs of keeping systems running.
13 years of coding experience
Advanced Dipoma, Hospiality Management, Advanced Dipoma, Hospiality Management at Australian College of Travel and Hospitality
Github Skills (9)
javas10
osgi10
web-development10
web-application10
webapp10
java10
jetty10
servlet10
configuration-management9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ops4j/org.ops4j.pax.web
Jul 2012 - Oct 2013
OSGi R7 Http Service, Whiteboard and Web Applications (OSGi CMPN Release chapters 102, 140 and 128) implementation using Jetty 9, Tomcat 9 or Undertow 2.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Gareth implemented features related to web application configuration and deployment, specifically adding support for virtual hosts and connectors. Their contributions involved modifications to several core components, including the context model, Jetty server integrations, and extender modules, to enable the handling of custom configurations through manifest headers and configuration files. The changes included adding code to parse configuration options and propagate these settings throughout the web application lifecycle.
chaptersweb-applicationsundertowhttp3osgi
garethcollins/https-everywhere
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
A browser extension that encrypts your communications with many websites that offer HTTPS but still allow unencrypted connections.
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
firefoxbrowsercommunicationsencryptsoffer
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