Jeremiah Boby
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJeremiah Boby is a software engineer based in London with nine years' experience specialising in Python and web technologies, and a strong practical interest in Cyber Security, DevOps and CloudOps. Known as a "generalising specialist," he combines deep backend engineering with an eye for maintainability, evidenced by extensive open-source contributions to community projects like Python Discord's sir-lancebot and bot where he refactored deprecated components and enhanced moderation features. He excels at simplifying complex codebases, removing unused dependencies, and shipping pragmatic improvements that improve reliability for large community-driven systems. Jeremiah brings a systems mindset to features and ops alike, bridging day-to-day development with operational resilience. Outside of work he channels curiosity into open-source stewardship, using community projects as a proving ground for secure, scalable tooling.
9 years of coding experience
Priestnall High SchoolA Levels, Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics, A Levels, Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics at Loreto Sixth Form College
English, French
Github Skills (10)
apim10
bots10
api10
python10
discord-js10
discord-bot10
discord10
googlebot10
code-cleanup9
refactoring9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
python-discord/sir-lancebot
Feb 2019 - Nov 2020
A Discord bot started as a community project for Hacktoberfest 2018, later evolved to an introductory project for aspiring new developers starting out with open source development.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 14 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jeremiah primarily focused on refactoring and removing deprecated or unused components within the `sir-lancebot` project. They removed persistent methods, deprecated cogs like `MonsterSurvey`, `HacktoberStats`, and `CandyCollection`, and cleaned up unused imports. The commits suggest a focus on maintaining and streamlining the bot's codebase, ensuring its stability and reducing unnecessary dependencies. These changes focused on backend elements by modifying Python code and bot extension configurations.
pythondiscordbotdiscord-botintroductory
python-discord/bot
Jan 2019 - Mar 2020
The community bot for the Python Discord community
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 21 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jeremiah primarily contributed to the `BigBrother` and `ModLog` cogs, enhancing their functionality. These changes included implementing features related to user watch reasons, fetching infraction data from an API, and modifying message logging. The contributions also included updating and refactoring existing code, along with adding functionality to the help, alias, and filtering cogs, indicating a focus on the bot's core features.
python310python311pythondiscord-pythondiscord
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