Greg Myers
Engineering Lead at Simply Business
Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGreg Myers is an engineering lead with 12 years of full-stack DevOps experience across Ruby, React, and TypeScript, and hands-on multi-cloud expertise in AWS, GCP and Azure. Based in Scotland, he has a track record of delivering stakeholder-loved projects, halving monolith deployment size and time, and driving tech transformations including foundations for event-driven architectures. He’s led cloud migrations, built large-scale ML marketplace integrations for AWS SageMaker at Experian, and guided teams through acquisitions and secure onboarding. An active open-source contributor, Greg has improved React+Rails integrations and production-ready Rails API tooling, demonstrating a knack for making complex integrations compatible across diverse deployments. He combines pragmatic engineering with developer coaching, often stepping into sales and post-sales technical consulting to align solutions with client security and compliance needs.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MSci, Masters in the skill of Science, Computer Science, First class Honours, MSci, Masters in the skill of Science, Computer Science, First class Honours at University of AberdeenBarnsley College
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Github Skills (24)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
rails10
webpack10
webpacker10
openapi10
ruby-on-rails10
react10
jsx10
cicd9
swagger-ui9
yaml8
dockers7
rspec7
docker7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
reactjs/react-rails
Aug 2017 - Apr 2022
Integrate React.js with Rails views and controllers, the asset pipeline, or webpacker.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 10 reviews, 320 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily contributed to the integration of React.js components with Rails views and the asset pipeline, focusing on making the application compatible with different versions of Webpacker. The commits involve significant modifications to the React component generation, installation, and server-side rendering aspects of the project. The user's work ensured that the project remained functional and compatible with a variety of versions and configurations.
rails-viewsreactwebpackercontrollerspipeline
rswag/rswag
Dec 2018 - Apr 2022
Seamlessly adds a Swagger to Rails-based API's
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 releases, 16 reviews, 155 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily contributed to the Rails-based API by implementing features and improving the development process. They updated the codebase to use standard filesystem helpers, and refactored test configurations by replacing a deprecated webdriver with a headless Firefox driver. They also contributed by merging branches, integrating YAML parsing capabilities into the API, and adding features like a Sprockets 4 manifest. Their commits showcase a good understanding of API design, testing practices, and build automation.
apirswagrailsapi-sswagger-ui
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