Jim Barber
Site Reliability Engineer at HealthEngine
Greater Perth Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Barber is a Site Reliability Engineer with 8+ years in DevOps and over two decades in IT, currently ensuring resilient systems at HealthEngine from his base in the Greater Perth area. He blends deep systems administration roots with modern automation practices, having progressed from UNIX support and application development to senior operations and DevOps roles across healthcare and finance. Known for rapid adoption of new technologies and meticulous attention to detail, he focuses on reliability, repeatable infrastructure, and pragmatic tooling to drive operational efficiency. His background includes senior platform work at Primary Health Care and MedicalDirector, giving him domain expertise in clinical systems and compliance-sensitive environments. Comfortable both scripting and architecting, he repeatedly turns manual processes into automated, auditable workflows that scale. Colleagues describe him as steady under pressure and adept at translating legacy environments into modern, automated operations.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Curtin University
Github Skills (169)
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gcp10
scheduling10
consul10
elasticsearch10
fluentd10
k8s10
mesos10
glusterfs10
letsencrypt10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
HealthengineAU/kops
Apr 2022 - Mar 2025
Kubernetes Operations (kops) - Production Grade K8s Installation, Upgrades, and Management
Contributions:31 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years 11 months
installationgradeproduction-gradek8skubernetes
HealthEngineAU/kubernetes
Feb 2019 - Mar 2023
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 2 months
containershands-onschedulingorchestrationdocker
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