John Byrne
Commercial Campaign Lead at QinetiQ
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Byrne is a seasoned commercial leader with two decades of experience architecting and negotiating complex, multi‑billion dollar IT outsourcing and transformation deals for FTSE and Fortune 500 clients. CIPS/IACCM qualified, he excels at structuring cross‑category contracts that deliver measurable cost savings and durable customer‑supplier relationships, while calming disputes and closing claims. He has led commercial strategy across Capita and HPE and now drives commercial campaigns at QinetiQ, bringing a rare blend of procurement rigor, consortium partner management and hands‑on operations understanding. Equally comfortable briefing C‑suite stakeholders or mentoring commercial teams, he combines a collaborative mindset with the ability to cut through dense contractual detail to pragmatic outcomes. Less obvious: he pairs this commercial pedigree with practical back‑end engineering contributions to the widely used libfabric open‑source project, improving reliability around memory and atomic operations.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Industrial Management, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Industrial Management at Nottingham Trent University3 A Levels 10 GCSE's Maths Physics Industrial Studies English Science, 3 A Levels 10 GCSE's Maths Physics Industrial Studies English Science at Pates Grammar School Cheltenham
german (conversational)
Github Skills (7)
c1710
c1110
rdma10
atomic10
atomics10
memory-management9
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ofiwg/libfabric
Oct 2017 - Sep 2021
Open Fabric Interfaces
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 28 commits, 16 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the `libfabric` repository, focusing on improving the reliability and functionality of the library. Their work involved addressing issues related to memory management, atomic operations, and buffer handling. They implemented solutions to prevent memory leaks and improve the handling of 128-bit atomic operations. The user also refactored code and added utilities to improve test coverage.
interfacesminecraftfabric
HewlettPackard/zhpe-libfabric
Jan 2018 - Oct 2020
Open Fabric Interfaces
Contributions:236 commits, 33 PRs, 116 pushes in 2 years 9 months
interfacesminecraftfabric
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