Gareth Healy
Principal Architect at Red Hat
Greater Sheffield Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGareth Healy is a Principal Architect with 11 years of experience designing and delivering enterprise middleware and cloud-native integrations across eCommerce, procurement, utilities, banking and the public sector. He specialises in Red Hat integration technologies—Fuse, AMQ, and OpenShift—building Apache Camel-based integration patterns that run at scale on OpenShift containers. Gareth combines hands-on DevOps skills (Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) with proven delivery leadership, having led critical integration platforms at boohoo.com that processed high-volume orders and stock movements. An active contributor to Red Hat community projects, he has practical experience improving OpenShift deployment automation and CI/testing workflows. He holds a First Class BSc in Computing from Sheffield Hallam and was recognised as UKI Middleware Consultant of the Year (FY2016), reflecting a blend of technical depth and client-facing impact. Notably, his open-source maintenance work—such as careful license and deployment hygiene on projects like Dozer and AgnosticD—underscores a focus on reliability and compliance often unseen in senior architects.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computing, Computer Science, First Class with Honours, BSc Computing, Computer Science, First Class with Honours at Sheffield Hallam UniversityGCSE, GCSE at Hartland ComprehensiveBTEC National Award for IT Practitioners, Distinction, BTEC National Award for IT Practitioners, Distinction at North Notts College
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Github Skills (35)
kubernetes10
maintenance10
bash10
cicd10
java10
javas10
automation10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
ansible10
code-cleanup10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
dockers9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
DozerMapper/dozer
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
Dozer is a Java Bean to Java Bean mapper that recursively copies data from one object to another.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 303 commits, 599 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Gareth primarily focused on updating and maintaining license headers within the Java source code files of the Dozer project. This involved modifications across multiple Java files within the core modules and test files of the project. The contributions indicate a focus on code maintenance and ensuring compliance with licensing standards.
java-beanjsinteroprecursivelyobjectmapperbean-mapper
redhat-cop/containers-quickstarts
Aug 2019 - Mar 2022
Images & templates for deploying software to OpenShift
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 251 reviews, 40 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Gareth primarily focused on improving the testing and automation aspects of the project. They added functionality to download Jenkins logs, updated Jenkins slave images to 4.2 bases, and implemented a GitHub workflow action for conftest. The user also refactored and removed obsolete tests, demonstrating a focus on maintaining and optimizing the testing infrastructure.
deployingopenshiftcontainer-cops2ikubernetes
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