Harvey Lowndes
Software Engineer at Starburst
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHarvey Lowndes is a software engineer with nine years' experience building cloud-native infrastructure, currently focused on scalable systems and DevOps practices. He has led complex cloud migrations (GCP to AWS), designed secure, scalable network and smart-home architectures that span cloud and edge, and implemented observability, CI/CD, and GitOps at production scale. His background includes substantial work at Oracle on Functions and Kubernetes, and an early career in Java-based systems and language tooling for the Office for National Statistics. Harvey contributes to open-source by adding an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure driver to the widely used Packer project, bridging OCI into multi-cloud image workflows. Based in Bristol, he combines systems-level engineering in Go, Python, Terraform and Kubernetes with practical Home Assistant add-on development—an unusual blend of cloud and consumer-edge expertise. He values collaboration, continuous learning, and delivering secure, reliable solutions that meet real user needs.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Information Technology at University of the West of EnglandFoundation degree Information Technology, Foundation degree Information Technology at University of Plymouth
Github Skills (10)
oracle-cloud10
cloud-infrastructure10
go10
cloud-services10
oracle10
oracle-cloud-infrastructure10
apidoc9
api9
terraform8
networking7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/packer
Apr 2018 - Mar 2021
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:
Backend & Cloud Engineer
Backend & Cloud EngineerContributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 7 comments in 3 years
Contributions summary:Harvey primarily contributed to integrating the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Go SDK into the project, adding dependencies and migrating existing code. They focused on implementing the OCI driver for Packer, enabling support for creating and managing instances, images, and networking resources within the Oracle Cloud. The user also added features to configure the display name, and freeform tags for images.
vagrantplatformslinuxpackerdocker
harveylowndes/packer
Apr 2018 - Jul 2018
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Contributions:3 PRs, 20 pushes, 11 branches in 3 months
mach-ocenterplatformslinuxpacker
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