James Hewitt
STSM Cloud Pak For Integration
Winchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJames Hewitt is a pragmatic cloud-native architect and engineering leader with 11 years of experience modernising large-scale integration and storage software at IBM, currently shaping the Cloud Pak for Integration. He combines hands-on backend development—contributing to high-impact open-source projects like skopeo and container distribution tooling—with strategic architecture work to drive OpenShift and cloud-native adoption across multiple product teams. Comfortable moving between coding, test/DevOps improvements, and team leadership, he has a track record of improving test reliability, storage drivers, and device integrations for real-world systems. Based in Winchester, England, he champions common-sense engineering practices and pragmatic modernization that balance developer productivity with operational resilience.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (22)
container10
docker10
addin10
testing10
openhab10
dockers10
java10
javas10
go10
amazon-s310
image-management10
serial-communication10
addon10
integrations9
distributions9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
openhab/openhab-addons
Jul 2016 - Jul 2021
Add-ons for openHAB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 21 commits, 26 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the `openhab-addons` repository, focused on the `rfxcom` binding. Their work involved adding new functionalities and features for RFXCOM devices, including support for new message subtypes, RAW message reception, and updated interface messages. They made improvements to the underlying code to convert unsigned bytes, read multiple bytes at a time over the serial connection, and added additional blind types. The user also refactored the RFXComHandler to enhance its ability to receive configured command IDs.
add-onsopenhabaddonjavaons
distribution/distribution
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
The toolkit to pack, ship, store, and deliver container content
Role in this project:Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:244 reviews, 9 commits, 30 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the distribution project. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to configuration and test outputs, as well as refactoring tests for the S3 storage driver. They also addressed issues related to Azure tests, ensuring they were correctly skipped when configuration was unavailable, and improved the test coverage across different storage drivers by adjusting test parameters.
containersshipdockerdelivercncf
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