Joe Eaves
Director at ShadowAcre LTD.
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJoe Eaves is a Director and seasoned DevOps/System Software engineer with 12 years’ experience building reliable developer experiences and bespoke software solutions from firmware to cloud. He has led teams at Synaptics and DisplayLink, driving migrations, CI/CD, build tooling and infrastructure automation across heterogeneous environments (Linux, Windows, macOS, embedded) and orchestration stacks like Kubernetes and Docker. A sysadmin at heart who still enjoys “hacky” scripting, Joe blends pragmatic engineering with formal practices—ISO-aligned IT processes, disaster recovery, and secure code-signing workflows involving HSMs. He is an active open-source contributor, notably improving node-csv parsing utilities and streamlining InfiniTime smartwatch build environments via unified Docker/Gitpod tooling, reflecting his focus on developer productivity and reproducible builds. Based in the Greater Cambridge area, he pairs hands-on technical depth with company leadership through his own firm ShadowAcre LTD.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC National Diploma, IT Practitioners, BTEC National Diploma, IT Practitioners at Cambridge Regional CollegeSt. Peters School, Huntingdon
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Github Skills (28)
javascript10
docker10
c-language10
bash10
cmake10
dockers10
build-automation10
csv10
nodejs10
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
lib9
parserator9
freertos9
parser9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
InfiniTimeOrg/InfiniTime
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Firmware for Pinetime smartwatch written in C++ and based on FreeRTOS
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer / Embedded Systems Engineer
DevOps Engineer / Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 2 PRs in 19 days
Contributions summary:Joe focused on improving the build process and development environment for the Infinitime project. Their contributions centered around modifying and unifying the Dockerfiles, adding build scripts, and configuring the Gitpod environment for developers. They also integrated improvements, likely from a pull request, and made minor fixes to the existing code. Their work directly impacts the project's build, test, and deployment workflows for the smartwatch firmware.
nrf52cppfirmwarebazelpinetime-smartwatch
adaltas/node-csv
Dec 2013 - Jan 2014
Full featured CSV parser with simple api and tested against large datasets.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality of the `node-csv` library. Their commits focused on implementing new features, specifically the `to.object` function, which transforms CSV data into a JavaScript object format. They also improved existing features like the `to.array` function and the header handling. Furthermore, the user addressed minor issues by adding trimming to title names and adding Javascript examples.
csvapifull-featuredcsv-readerstreaming
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