Jim Speir
Senior DevOps Engineer at Glider Technology
Wick, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Speir is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Wick, Scotland, with 11 years of hands-on experience building and modernizing cloud-native infrastructure and developer workflows. He architects scalable AWS and Kubernetes solutions, migrates CI/CD systems (TeamCity to Bitbucket/CodePipeline), and authors pragmatic automation in Python, Go, NodeJS and .NET to streamline delivery. Jim has a track record of reviving legacy systems—flattening pre-loop Terraform and containerizing monoliths—while introducing ephemeral test environments and idempotent infrastructure. He contributes full-stack fixes to the well-regarded GibbonEdu open-source school management platform, demonstrating both backend and UI sensibilities. Driven by curiosity and practical creativity (he once built a Raspberry Pi alarm clock), he thrives on solving problems no one else has tackled and making teams more productive.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Duncanrig Secondary School
English, German
Github Skills (8)
php10
web-development10
object-oriented-programming10
html9
javascript8
database-design7
css7
git6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
GibbonEdu/core
Oct 2017 - Jan 2021
Gibbon is a flexible, open source school management platform designed to make life better for teachers, students, parents and leaders.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 37 PRs, 58 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily contributed to the Gibbon school management platform by implementing new features and fixing existing issues related to the user interface and backend functionalities. The user added new classes, such as the WebLink class, and modified existing ones like the Button class to improve the form functionality. Additionally, the user focused on refactoring existing modules such as activities_my.php and library components, upgrading them to the latest standards. These commits suggest a significant impact in making the platform more user-friendly, functional, and maintainable, while adhering to best practices.
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jimbo8098/core
Sep 2017 - Oct 2020
Gibbon is a flexible, open source school management platform designed to make life better for teachers, students, parents and leaders.
Contributions:150 pushes, 53 branches in 3 years 1 month
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