Graham Bleach
Cycling Instructor at Surrey County Council
Surrey Heath, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGraham Bleach is an experienced technical architect and systems engineer with 15 years building and operating high-traffic web platforms and government digital services. He has led infrastructure and TechOps teams at organizations including The Guardian, Songkick and the Government Digital Service, guiding production migrations, release automation and robust platform design. Graham has hands-on backend experience contributing to prominent open-source tooling like Logstash, focusing on reliability, dependency updates and documentation quality. Now taking a break and working as a cycling instructor in Surrey Heath, he brings a pragmatic, operations-first mindset and a knack for turning complex operational challenges into repeatable processes.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Physics, Bsc Physics at University of Bristol
Github Skills (10)
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
jruby9
logging9
javas8
java8
redis8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/logstash
Dec 2011 - Dec 2011
Logstash - transport and process your logs, events, or other data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Graham primarily focused on maintaining and improving various Logstash outputs and inputs. Their work involved fixing typos, escaping characters to prevent incorrect formatting, and updating Elasticsearch versions. They also addressed documentation issues by hiding comments and removing unnecessary TODO notes. These contributions demonstrate a focus on code quality, bug fixing, and keeping the project up-to-date with dependencies.
eventsstreamingloggingetl-frameworklogstash
bleach/reading-matter
Sep 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 11 months
javascriptreading-listslists
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