James Gregory-monk
Lead Systems Engineer at epiGenesys
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorJames Gregory-monk is a Lead Systems Engineer based in Sheffield with 11 years of experience blending software development and operations across Linux, Windows, and occasional macOS environments. He holds a master-level background in software engineering and excels at server-side engineering and ops support, bridging developer priorities with reliable infrastructure. Comfortable across back-end stacks, he has hands-on experience improving robustness in real projects—such as enhancing email handling and attachment processing in a Ruby on Rails helpdesk. James is self-taught in systems administration and brings practical telephony and VoIP knowledge to network-focused problems. He’s known for tackling edge cases and improving fault tolerance, particularly around email formats and thumbnail generation. Pragmatic and curious, he combines carrier-grade support instincts with a developer’s drive to ship maintainable code.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (9)
e-mail10
rails10
mailer10
ruby-on-rails10
emailjs10
base64-encoding9
localization8
ruby6
ubuntu6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ivaldi/brimir
Sep 2016 - Dec 2018
Email helpdesk built using Ruby on Rails and Zurb Foundation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 13 PRs, 22 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on improving the functionality and robustness of the email helpdesk. They fixed a Gravatar display issue, improved translations for ticket statuses, and added support for receiving emails in Base64 format. Additionally, the user added a test for JPEG attachments and implemented a fallback mechanism for thumbnail generation, indicating a focus on handling different email formats and attachment types.
ruby-on-railsrailsemailrubyfoundation
epigenesys/epi_deploy
Oct 2015 - Oct 2024
Contributions:5 reviews, 7 PRs, 17 pushes in 9 years 1 month
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