Jim Neath
Director at Pandere Ltd
Bolton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorJim Neath is a Director and seasoned Ruby on Rails specialist with 18 years of experience building and operating web platforms from Bolton, England. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Ruby, Rails, JavaScript and Linux with strong DevOps practice—authoring and maintaining Chef recipes and automation for Engine Yard-style cloud deployments. His work on ey-cloud-recipes shows a focus on reliable service configuration (Sidekiq, Redis, collectd) and pragmatic infrastructure improvements like automated backups and Solr management. As head of Pandere Ltd since 2014 he blends technical leadership with product delivery, often working across the stack to ship resilient systems. Colleagues rely on him for practical solutions that bridge application code and operational concerns, and he’s comfortable driving both feature development and deployment automation.
18 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (11)
chef-client10
configuration-management10
chef-solo10
devops10
ruby9
system-administration9
cron8
css6
internationalization6
ruby-on-rails6
ab-testing6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
engineyard/ey-cloud-recipes
May 2011 - Feb 2014
A starter repo for custom chef recipes on EY's cloud platform. These are for reference, and do not indicate a supported status.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:108 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily focused on maintaining and improving the infrastructure and configuration management aspects of the `ey-cloud-recipes` repository. Their contributions include updating URLs for Solr downloads, enabling/disabling specific recipes, and adding new recipes like collectd, ban, and sidekiq. They also made modifications to the sidekiq and redis recipes and updated the database backups. Their work indicates a strong focus on automating deployments and configuring services within the Engine Yard cloud environment.
recipescookbookrecipechef-recipesstatus
purify/mail_style
Dec 2009 - May 2010
Making HTML emails a little less painful. Writes css inline and corrects image urls.
Contributions:40 commits in 4 months
csshtml-emailimage-url
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