Jason Woods
Head Of Web Development at Other Media
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJason Woods is a Head of Web Development based in London with 12 years of experience blending back-end engineering, DevOps, and systems architecture. He leads platform architecture and delivery at Other Media, evolving legacy data-centre footprints into virtualised, infrastructure-as-code driven environments while fostering a DevOps culture. A pragmatic open-source contributor, Jason has fixed critical bugs and improved reliability across projects like SaltStack, Magento 2, Munin, Shields, and Mautic—work that spans Vault integrations, cron deadlocks, monitoring state accuracy, and API-driven badge logic. He pairs strong operational chops with hands-on code changes, routinely adding unit tests and stability improvements that prevent production surprises. Colleagues describe him as relentlessly curious and community-minded—he even customizes his Atom editor and channels hobbyist tinkering into useful OSS patch contributions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Batley Grammar SchoolOssett Sixth Form College
English
Github Skills (42)
database-migrations10
unit-testing10
monitoring10
debugging10
makers10
debug10
javascript10
pytest10
github10
python10
back-end-development10
ecommerce10
testing10
hashicorp-vault10
configuration-management10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
munin-monitoring/munin
Jul 2014 - Mar 2018
Main repository for munin master / node / plugins
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 21 comments in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements within the Munin monitoring system. They addressed issues related to incorrect state detection and broken limits within the `LimitsOld.pm` file. Their contributions included refinements to the handling of unknown values and the integration of reporting for GAUGE values, directly influencing the accuracy and alerting behavior of the monitoring system. The changes involved modifying Perl code, likely interacting with data processing and state management within Munin.
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netz98/n98-magerun2
Apr 2017 - Apr 2021
The swiss army knife for Magento developers, sysadmins and devops. The tool provides a huge set of well tested command line commands which save hours of work time. All commands are extendable by a module API.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on improving the error handling and stability of the `n98-magerun2` CLI tool. They addressed issues where exceptions were being suppressed in the developer console, ensuring errors were displayed for debugging. They also improved the Cron job execution by displaying exceptions when jobs failed and fixed a database connection issue in the `db:dump` command related to Unix sockets. Additionally, the user made a code style fix.
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