Jeppe Fihl-pearson
DevOps Engineer at Memrise
Chichester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJeppe Fihl-pearson is a DevOps Engineer based in Chichester with 16 years of experience building and modernizing backend infrastructure and deployment pipelines. Currently at Memrise, he focuses on reliable, scalable operations and CI/CD, bringing practical Python expertise to production systems. An active open-source contributor, Jeppe has modernized several prominent Python projects—migrating codebases to Python 3, simplifying dependencies, and improving deployment workflows for tools like ec2instances.info and the Will bot. He brings deep familiarity with cloud tooling and database adapters, having improved Redshift SQLAlchemy compatibility and optimized Firebase wrappers with connection pooling. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic problem-solver who balances code quality (pylint-driven refactors) with engineering velocity. Quietly thoughtful, he blends infrastructure hygiene with hands-on backend fixes to keep services both robust and maintainable.
17 years of coding experience
Danish, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
docker10
postgresql10
python10
apidoc10
psycopg10
dockers10
automation10
api10
sqlalchemy10
invoke10
http-request10
automations10
devops10
firebase10
cloud-computing9
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
thisbejim/Pyrebase
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
A simple python wrapper for the Firebase API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 12 PRs, 16 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Jeppe primarily focused on extending the functionality of the `pyrebase` library, a Python wrapper for the Firebase API. Their contributions included adding new methods like `delete()`, `keys()`, and `get()`, which expanded the library's capabilities. They also modified existing methods, such as `.one()` and `.query()`, to improve usability and efficiency. The user also implemented connection pooling for performance.
firebasepython
skoczen/will
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Will is a simple, beautiful-to-code bot for slack, hipchat, and a whole lot more.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jeppe primarily focused on Python code modernization and bug fixes within the "will" bot framework, migrating to Python 3 and updating import statements. They also refactored code to align with pylint standards, ensuring code quality and readability. In addition to code improvements, the user contributed to the project's deployment by configuring build processes and the CI/CD pipeline and added bug fixes for the build process.
hipchatslack
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