Gareth Rees
Director at Clear Tech Solutions Limited
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGareth Rees is a versatile director and hands-on technologist based in Cardiff with 11 years of experience building and supporting consumer electronics, networking, and unified communications solutions. He founded and leads Clear Tech Solutions, blending client-facing IT consulting with deeper engineering work across hardware repair, web design, and network engineering. Gareth pairs commercial leadership with practical DevOps and backend skills—evidenced by contributions to the widely used Packer project where he improved GCE image-building, OSLogin handling, metadata management, and logging. Comfortable across both field support and cloud automation, he brings a pragmatic approach to solving infrastructure and security challenges for small and mid-sized organizations. Colleagues know him for translating hands-on technical fixes into lasting operational improvements and automation.
11 years of coding experience
Bryn Hafod Primary SchoolIT / Tech, IT / Tech at Llanrumney High School
Github Skills (7)
automation10
automations10
go10
google-compute-engine10
gcp10
devops9
infrastructure-as-code9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/packer
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 12 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Gareth's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the Google Compute Engine (GCE) builder within the Packer project. They implemented a feature to add SSH keys to instances after a configurable delay and introduced a mechanism to add metadata during instance creation. The user also refactored the code to derive the OSLogin user and implemented changes for GCE OSLogin, including handling metadata server timeouts and improving logging. These changes indicate a focus on automating and improving the GCE image-building process.
vagrantplatformslinuxpackerdocker
seventieskid/force-merge-test
Apr 2022 - Nov 2023
Contributions:6 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 7 months
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