John Bampton
Retired at Reserve Bank of Australia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolJohn Bampton is a seasoned IT operations leader with two decades of experience running mission-critical, 24x7 data centre and recovery services at the Reserve Bank of Australia, recently transitioning to retirement. He has led teams through operations, project management and enterprise architecture work, applying ITIL best practices and process automation to keep banking and government systems resilient. A hands-on technologist, John pairs leadership with steady contributions to major open-source projects—he's an Apache committer and has made many quality-focused fixes across high-profile repos like Go, Ruby, Rails, Plotly and Apache APISIX. His strengths lie in requirements analysis, operationalizing CI/CD and improving code and documentation clarity to reduce risk and maintenance cost. Based in Sydney, he balances technical rigor with community involvement and a personal commitment to health and team culture (YMCA regular and founding member of a local Tasmanian Devils group). Colleagues know him for meticulous attention to detail and a pragmatic approach to keeping complex systems reliable.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Benilde HighDiploma in Information Technology, Diploma in Information Technology at TAFE
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Github Skills (96)
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bash10
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Programming languages (44)
Github contributions (5)
lucee/lucee-docs
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
Source and build scripts for Lucee's documentation.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:40 reviews, 105 commits, 130 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on improving the Lucee documentation website, addressing broken links and standardizing code formatting. They updated various files, including layouts, templates, and configuration files, to fix HTTPS and other URL issues. Additionally, they refactored code, corrected spelling errors, and removed unnecessary whitespace to improve code quality and readability. They contributed to the overall maintainability and usability of the documentation.
build-scriptluceecfmlcoldfusion
gin-gonic/gin
Nov 2018 - Oct 2022
Gin is a high-performance HTTP web framework written in Go. It provides a Martini-like API but with significantly better performance—up to 40 times faster—thanks to httprouter. Gin is designed for building REST APIs, web applications, and microservices.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 15 commits, 14 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to code quality and consistency within the Gin framework. Their commits focused on fixing typos, correcting spelling errors, and standardizing code formatting, like case of GitHub mentions and `doctype` declarations. They also addressed code style issues, such as removing unnecessary attributes from HTML tags, and refactoring variable names. This work primarily involved maintaining the existing codebase and ensuring better readability.
gohttp-routermicroservicesrestrest-api
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