Gordon Swan
Software Engineer at BBC News
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGordon Swan is a software engineer and Debian-focused systems specialist with nine years of hands-on experience across DevOps, e-commerce, and newsroom engineering. Currently building resilient services for BBC News’ Elections and Weather teams, he pairs production-grade software delivery with deep *nix expertise and a preference for Debian-based and macOS environments. His background includes contracting to modernize legacy LAMP stacks and mail infrastructure for avionics retail, where he replaced outdated SMTP systems with TLS-hardened, multi-tenant solutions. A computer science graduate from Edinburgh Napier, he brings practical incident-response forensics experience and a knack for pragmatic tooling that improves operational visibility and team performance.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Computer Science, Advanced Higher A, High School, Computer Science, Advanced Higher A at Hamilton Grammar SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Software Development, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Software Development at Edinburgh Napier University
EnglishProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DelbyPicnic/MIDIHero
Jun 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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