George Blue
Software Engineer at Broadcom Software
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Blue is a software engineer based in London with nine years of professional experience building and improving backend systems at Broadcom (formerly VMware/Pivotal) and IBM. He focuses on practical, maintainable solutions—refactoring core logic, tightening error handling, and enforcing coding standards to improve long-term code quality. An active open-source contributor, George has improved widely used projects such as JSONata’s JavaScript engine and the Ginkgo/Gomega Go testing ecosystem, adding clearer errors, new matchers, and parallel-test output features. His work on Cloud Foundry components shows deep familiarity with service broker lifecycles, backward compatibility, and CLI reliability. A Cambridge-trained physicist, he brings analytical rigor and a habit of learning by doing, often improving projects through small, high-impact fixes rather than grand rewrites. Colleagues know him for thoughtful craftsmanship and a preference for making complex systems easier to understand and maintain.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Physics, Master’s Degree Physics at University of Cambridge
English, Spanish
Github Skills (31)
debugging10
apim10
matcher10
debug10
javascript10
test-driven-design10
jsonata10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
testing10
http10
test-framework10
ruby10
go10
api10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
onsi/gomega
May 2018 - Aug 2022
Ginkgo's Preferred Matcher Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 9 reviews, 53 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:George primarily contributed to the Gomega library, focusing on improving the testing framework. They addressed issues related to output formatting within go test tests, implemented fixes for unexpected behaviors in matchers, and introduced new matchers for HTTP response assertions, including status, body, and header assertions. Furthermore, the user updated dependencies, ensuring the project's security and maintaining currency with relevant libraries.
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cloudfoundry/cli
Apr 2019 - Sep 2022
The official command line client for Cloud Foundry
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 reviews, 229 commits, 149 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:George appears to have been involved in debugging and fixing issues within the Cloud Foundry CLI project, specifically addressing problems related to service brokers and marketplace plans. Their work involved code modifications to remove dependencies on specific features in older versions of the Cloud Controller API. These changes involved debugging tests and fixing broken code related to service broker functionality. The user's contributions focused on refining existing CLI functionality and ensuring backward compatibility.
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