Gareth Rees
Programme Lead, Transparency at mySociety
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGareth Rees is a Programme Lead in Transparency with 15 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining Ruby on Rails applications and leading cross-functional teams at mySociety. He excels at turning projects from concept to production under pressure, drawing on deep back-end expertise demonstrated by contributions to the prominent open-source FOI platform Alaveteli. Comfortable bridging design and engineering, Gareth has a track record of operational thinking—from systems engineering leadership at Box UK to coordinating live broadcast technology during his student radio days. He combines practical package and deployment know-how with a passion for community building, having founded a local Ruby group and contributed actively to open source. Colleagues describe him as energetic, pragmatic and unafraid to take initiative, with a knack for keeping multiple creative projects moving.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, IT, Computer Science, Business, Consultancy, BSc Computer Science, IT, Computer Science, Business, Consultancy at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddBryn Celynnog Comprehensive School
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Github Skills (11)
updater8
package-management8
rspec6
html6
css6
rspec-rails6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
admin5
git5
python3
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
mysociety/alaveteli
Mar 2014 - Jan 2023
Provide a Freedom of Information request system for your jurisdiction
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 releases, 488 reviews, 5590 commits in 8 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Gareth contributed primarily to the back-end development of a Freedom of Information request system. Their work included replacing the Ubuntu cosmic repository with a focal repository, suggesting an understanding of package management and dependency updates. They also addressed installer permission issues and implemented updates related to Alaveteli versioning, which demonstrates involvement in application maintenance and upgrades.
freedom-of-informationalavetelirequestjurisdictionaccess-to-information
mysociety/dirittodisapere-theme
Jan 2015 - Aug 2020
The Alaveteli theme for Diritto di Sapere (Italy)
Contributions:6 PRs, 1 push, 88 comments in 5 years 7 months
alavetelialaveteli-theme
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