Harry Pidcock
Engineering Manager at Canonical
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolHarry Pidcock is an Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience leading backend and DevOps work from Brisbane, Australia. At Canonical he focuses on Juju and Pebble, contributing to cloud orchestration and credential management for production-scale deployments across diverse infrastructures. He combines hands-on coding—improving core packages, adding unit tests, and refining logging—with team leadership to deliver reliable lifecycle tooling. His background in interactive entertainment and computer science gives him a practical, systems-first approach to engineering problems. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, able to translate complex cloud requirements into testable, maintainable solutions. Outside management duties he still prefers being close to the code, particularly in open-source orchestration projects.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Interactive Entertainment, Computer Science, Bachelor of Interactive Entertainment, Computer Science at SAE Institute Australia
English
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Github Skills (11)
go10
testing10
devops9
yaml8
cloud-computing8
aws7
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
command-line-interface6
cli6
command-line6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
juju/juju
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
Orchestration engine that enables the deployment, integration and lifecycle management of applications at any scale, on any infrastructure (Kubernetes or otherwise).
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 1643 reviews, 403 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Harry's contributions primarily focused on implementing and maintaining features related to cloud credential management within the juju project. Their work involved code changes in core packages and the creation of new functionality for handling malformed credentials. They also contributed to the testing infrastructure by adding unit tests for command line tools such as `list-credentials` and `bootstrap --clouds`. Additionally, the user made improvements to the logging within various tests, and optimized the usage of time related functions.
operatormicroserviceyamljujuk8s
hpidcock/gophertest
Nov 2019 - Apr 2023
Run go tests with speed
Contributions:11 PRs, 32 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 5 months
golangtestingstress-testingspeed
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