Gary Hunt
Solutions Architect at Freelance
Bangor, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Hunt is a solutions architect with 14 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering large-scale IT transformations across government, banking, energy, aerospace and logistics sectors. He has led technical strategy and pre-sales for major accounts, acting as CTO/Chief Engineer to implement high-availability platforms (including a $2bn digital payments system), private clouds across multiple data centers, and enterprise CMDBs in multi-supplier environments. Gary blends deep architecture and service management expertise (ITIL, PCI DSS, ISO27001) with a practical delivery mindset, running design assurance, DR validation and operations to meet five‑nine SLAs. He also runs a freelance practice from Northern Ireland, mentoring teams and driving innovation initiatives across cloud, security and API management. An active contributor to open-source, he migrated a notable JS video project to TypeScript, creating manual type definitions to preserve compatibility—showing his willingness to get into the code beneath strategic designs. Colleagues describe him as a trusted technical advisor who translates C-level priorities into pragmatic, auditable engineering solutions.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Maidstone Grammar
Github Skills (7)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
type-definition10
typescript-types10
enums10
testing9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jitsi/lib-jitsi-meet
Aug 2021 - Mar 2022
A low-level JS video API that allows adding a completely custom video experience to web apps.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 32 commits, 58 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Gary primarily focused on migrating the project's codebase to TypeScript, as evidenced by numerous commits adding and modifying type definitions. Their work included creating hand-crafted type definitions for core components like `JitsiConference` and `TraceablePeerConnection`. They also implemented and tested TypeScript enums for various events and constants used within the project, ensuring backward compatibility.
apilevel-jsjavascriptjitsivideo-conferencing
garyhuntddn/lib-jitsi-meet
Feb 2021 - Apr 2022
A low-level JS video API that allows adding a completely custom video experience to web apps.
Contributions:2 PRs, 139 pushes, 102 branches in 1 year 1 month
apilevel-jsjavascriptweb-appsvideo-api
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