Geraint Edwards
Owner at Byte Me Ltd
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolGeraint Edwards is an experienced software engineer and owner with 16+ years of professional practice and a career stretching back to Unix and internet systems in the 1990s. He blends hands-on backend and ops expertise—Golang, Perl, PHP, JavaScript, SQL and extensive shell scripting—with infrastructure experience in AWS, Terraform and CI/CD, having led backend work at the Office for National Statistics and Companies House. Comfortable both as a systems administrator across Solaris/AIX/FreeBSD/Linux and as a developer, he has a track record of stabilising and improving production systems and contributing bug fixes to major open-source projects like the Joomla CMS. Based in Cardiff, he pairs big-picture architectural thinking with the ability to untangle “spaghetti” code, and is noted for rapid learning and pragmatic problem solving across legacy and cloud-native stacks.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computing Science, BSc Computing Science at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddLewis School Pengam
English, Welsh
Github Skills (7)
content-management-system10
cms10
debug10
php10
javascript10
content-management10
joomla10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
joomla/joomla-cms
May 2017 - Jan 2022
Home of the Joomla! Content Management System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 reviews, 12 commits, 28 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Geraint primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the Joomla CMS, focusing on JavaScript and PHP. They addressed issues related to form handling, specifically the "showon" feature in Joomla, making improvements to its functionality and JavaScript implementation. The user also worked on resolving issues in the core system and plugins, including a fix for a category model and Actionlogs issues. The user's commits reflect a focus on maintaining and improving the stability of the Joomla CMS.
cmsmanagement-systemjoomla-extensionsjoomla-componentphp
GeraintEdwards/joomla-cms
Mar 2017 - Mar 2021
Home of the Joomla! Content Management System
Contributions:98 commits, 1 PR, 213 pushes in 4 years 1 month
cmsmanagement-systemjoomla-extensionsjoomla-componentphp
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