Gary Hockin
Network Manager at Launceston College
Launceston, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Hockin is a seasoned IT professional with 13 years of focused experience managing and evolving college IT services, now serving as Network Manager at Launceston College. Largely self-taught, he blends strategic oversight with hands-on technical work to keep systems reliable, secure, and user-friendly so that "IT just works." His background spans frontline ICT support to site-wide IT management, with a track record of improving processes and making resources safer and more available for staff and students. Gary also contributes to open-source back-end development—most notably enhancing the Joind.in web frontend by integrating API, database, and profile features—demonstrating a practical full-stack mindset beyond his education-sector role. Based in Launceston, England, he pairs curiosity-driven learning (including public tech streaming) with pragmatic leadership to deliver measurable operational improvements.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Launceston College
Github Skills (8)
php10
api10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
twig9
mongodb-database8
mongodb8
sql4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
joindin/joindin-web2
Dec 2013 - Jan 2014
HTTP Frontend For the Joind.in API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs in 19 days
Contributions summary:Gary primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Joind.in web application. Their work included modifying the application to use a configurable base URI, adding a slugify function and implementing features related to user profiles. Furthermore, they integrated talk and event data with the API and database. These changes indicate a focus on improving data presentation and enhancing the application's features.
apijavascriptfrontend
GeeH/ChatCodes
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
Embedding Twitch Chat into IntelliJ IDEA with viewer-controlled commands
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 9 commits in 2 years 1 month
controlledintellij-ideachattwitchviewer
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