John Davidge
Senior Software Engineer at Anchore
Greater Oxford Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Davidge is a senior software engineer and engineering leader with 13 years’ experience building high-performance, distributed teams and shipping Python/Django cloud-native applications. He has led Agile transformations and held senior technology roles (VP/Senior Director) where he combined hands-on architecture and coding with team coaching to improve stability and delivery predictability. A certified Scrum Master, he is comfortable across the stack and has deep OpenStack expertise—contributing to Neutron, Horizon and the widely used OpenStack manuals, including IPv6 Prefix Delegation work that helped service providers. His background spans corporate cloud R&D at Cisco and Rackspace to product-scale leadership at Reorg and recent senior engineering work at Anchore, and he even prototyped a NASA-inspired space station simulator as a passion project. Based in the Greater Oxford area, he pairs practical engineering with a knack for turning complex networking and data challenges into maintainable systems.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Private Pilot's License, Private Pilot's License at Sussex Flying ClubBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Kent
Github Skills (21)
unit-testing10
javascript10
python10
configuration-management10
horizon10
openstack10
openstack-neutron10
ipv610
documentation10
networking9
django8
configuration-file8
configurations8
cli6
command-line6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/openstack-manuals
Jan 2013 - Mar 2016
OpenStack Manuals. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:8 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the OpenStack manuals, focusing on documentation updates and enhancements. Their work involved adding content on IPv6 Prefix Delegation, incorporating new configuration options, and improving the overall clarity and consistency of the documentation. They also addressed formatting issues and incorporated a neutron purge command. The contributions reflect a focus on improving user guidance and providing comprehensive information for deploying and managing OpenStack.
manualsopendevopenstack
openstack/neutron
Aug 2014 - Feb 2016
OpenStack Networking (Neutron). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation EngineerContributions:21 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to improving the quality and stability of the OpenStack Neutron project by addressing bugs and enhancing test coverage. Their work involved refactoring unit tests to handle issues arising from randomized environments and ensuring the correct behavior of the VPN and security group features. The user also addressed an inconsistency in the codebase and added a new configuration option. Furthermore, the user contributed to IPv6 Prefix Delegation feature by fixing a major bug, and improved documentation.
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