Geoff Macartney
Lead Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Belfast Metropolitan Area United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorGeoff Macartney is a Lead Engineer with over a decade of experience building cloud-native, telecom and embedded systems, currently consulting to a major UK online bank on Terraform, Kubernetes and AWS. He is polyglot across C/C++, Java, Go, JS/TS, Python and some Rust, and combines hands-on coding with CI/CD and infrastructure automation. An active Apache Software Foundation member and long-time committer and current chair of the Apache Brooklyn PMC, he brings proven open-source governance and production-grade project experience. His contributions to jclouds include performance optimizations and enhanced OpenStack networking APIs, showing a knack for refactoring complex back-end systems. Based in Belfast, he pairs deep systems-level knowledge with practical cloud architecture (AWS Solutions Architect Associate) to deliver reliable, scalable platforms.
10 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (18)
apidoc10
java10
javas10
openstack10
api10
rest-api8
aws8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
testing7
junit-test7
junit7
testng7
unit-test7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jclouds/jclouds
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Read-only mirror of ASF Git Repo for jclouds
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 6 PRs, 37 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Geoff primarily contributed to the back-end infrastructure of the jclouds project. They focused on optimizing performance by addressing O(n^2) response times in the OpenStack Nova integration. The changes involve refactoring code, consolidating classes, and improving the efficiency of security group handling, as demonstrated by modifications to test classes and core API logic. Further contributions include adding an InternetGatewayApi, and RouteTable API. Also, they have worked on the implementation of comparing `IpPermission` objects.
jcloudsgit-reporead-onlyasf
geomacy/incubator-brooklyn
Sep 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:97 pushes, 30 branches, 7 comments in 4 months
javabrooklynapache
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