Gered King
Software Development And DevOps at End Point Corporation
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolGered King is a pragmatic software development and DevOps engineer with over 16 years of production experience and a two-decade background in backend services and full‑stack web development. He has led complex migrations and microservice designs—modernizing ESB-based healthcare infrastructure and building DSL-driven data flows for clinical systems—while also supporting e-commerce and public-sector platforms. A steady contributor to open-source projects, Gered has improved widely used libraries such as a Clojure PDF generator and the Java Pebble template engine, fixing tricky conditional bugs and adding practical features like subscript syntax and table/header support. Comfortable across JVM, Clojure, and native stacks, he pairs hands-on coding with infrastructure automation and operational tooling. Based in Old Toronto, he brings a focus on reliability, documentation, and developer workflows that often unlock faster onboarding and safer upgrades for distributed systems.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at Durham College
Github Skills (11)
clojure10
table-html10
pdf-generation10
javas10
pdf10
render10
clojure-cli10
java10
tableview10
testing9
api-design8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
clj-pdf/clj-pdf
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
PDF generation library for Clojure
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 9 PRs, 13 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Gered primarily contributed to the `clj-pdf` library by adding new features and enhancing existing functionalities. These contributions include adding support for table header customization, image inclusion within chunks, and various table properties such as leading options, row-splitting, and header/footer support. The user also fixed a mis-use of header/footer keys and added a new event `PdfPageEvent.onBeforePageStart`. Several commits involved minor improvements and type hinting.
pdfpdf-generationclojure-libraryclojurebabashka
PebbleTemplates/pebble
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Java Template Engine
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Gered primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements for the Java-based Pebble template engine. Their work included fixing issues related to conditional logic within the template engine, specifically addressing problems with `if/elseif/else` statements and null pointer exceptions in conditional expressions. Additionally, the user implemented support for a new "subscript syntax" for accessing attributes within the template, which improved the engine's flexibility and functionality. Furthermore, the user addressed minor issues like typos and removing duplicate tests.
template-enginetemplatejava-template-enginejavajava-template
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