Howard Jones
Senior DevOps Engineer at Bentley Systems
Northampton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHoward Jones is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 19 years' experience building automation, integration and monitoring for enterprise and cloud platforms, currently driving DevOps at Bentley Systems. He combines deep networking and datacentre operations expertise (Cisco, Juniper, vSphere, NSX) with hands-on software delivery in Python/Django, Ansible, Packer and container tooling to shrink deployment times and reduce error rates. As sole author of the widely used Network-Weathermap project, he blends sysadmin pragmatism with modern front-end and CI practices and has shipped tools adopted by large telcos and governments. His background spans security and compliance (ISO27001, PCI), ISP services, embedded monitoring hardware and bespoke internal tooling, and he maintains active open-source contributions such as enhancements to the beets music manager. Based in Northampton with UK SC clearance, he’s comfortable moving between low-level network automation and high-level platform orchestration, often surfacing useful “glue” that others overlook.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at Imperial College London
Github Skills (7)
media-library10
music10
python10
cli10
algorithms8
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
beetbox/beets
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 comments, 3 issues in 1 day
Contributions summary:Howard primarily focused on improving the music library manager. Their contributions involved adding features to summarize duplicate items during the import process, which included displaying information such as file format, bitrate, and duration. They refactored code, moving functions to utility modules, and addressed compatibility by removing dependencies on specific Python library versions. Further improvements included passing duplicate information between tasks and sessions for more streamlined processing.
clipythonmusicbrainztaggermusic
Cacti/plugin_quicktree
May 2017 - Feb 2022
Make playlists of graphs in Cacti
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 14 commits in 4 years 9 months
playlistscactigraphs
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