Jivan Pal
Full Stack Developer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJivan Pal is a Full Stack Developer and systems engineer with a decade of experience building and operating cost-conscious, highly available services—from Docker-based production clusters on GCP to bespoke WordPress and VPS deployments. With an M.Sci in Mathematics and Computer Science, he combines strong software engineering (Java, C, Haskell, scripting) with deep systems knowledge in Linux administration, networking, security, and databases, having co-administered Galera/MariaDB clusters and implemented extensive SQL-driven game backend logic. His background as Lead Developer for a long-running student newspaper and as a freelance consultant demonstrates a pragmatic ability to own end-to-end delivery, including TLS, backups, CI/CD, and custom plugins. He’s also an active open-source contributor and the author of Drat, an APFS data-recovery CLI born from hard-earned lessons about backups, which reflects his interest in low-level filesystems and forensics as well as functional programming.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
A Level, GCSE / BTEC, A Level, GCSE / BTEC at Thomas Tallis SchoolM.Sci. (Hons), Mathematics and Computer Science, M.Sci. (Hons), Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Birmingham
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
nginx10
documentation10
sphinx9
webdav8
rest-api7
restful-api7
api-design7
api-rest7
mariadb6
datetime6
php6
dictionary6
boolean6
ruby6
enumeration6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
nextcloud/documentation
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
📘 Nextcloud documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 review, 13 commits, 4 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jivan primarily focused on updating the Nextcloud documentation, specifically the nginx configuration examples. Their contributions included re-working nginx configuration files for improved efficiency, correcting parameter names, and modifying the descriptions for the various configuration examples. They also updated WebDAV and sync documentation, ensuring accuracy of the information provided to the users.
manualnextcloudsphinx
jivanpal/drat
Oct 2019 - Jun 2022
Utility for performing data recovery and analysis of APFS partitions/containers.
Contributions:4 releases, 312 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 7 months
containersapfsdata-recoverydockerrecovery
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