John Hope
Senior Engineering Manager at GitLab
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
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Top SchoolJohn Hope is a Senior Engineering Manager at GitLab with 15+ years in software engineering and over seven years in leadership, including managing remote teams and managers. He currently leads the Plan stage for a large product area and has a track record of driving architectural decisions and scaling systems for millions of monthly users across SaaS and mobile gaming. Comfortable shipping production code in Ruby, JavaScript, Haskell, Python and Objective-C, he also brings hands-on DevOps/DevSecOps experience across CI, packaging and deployment. A former leader at Storyful and a start-up co-founder who helped raise seed capital, he knows engineering growth through all stages from pre-revenue to IPO. An active open-source contributor, his notable contributions include improving HTTParty’s testing infrastructure, reflecting a focus on reliability and maintainability. With academic roots in music technology and sonic arts, he blends technical depth with a creative, systems-thinking approach.
11 years of coding experience
PGDip., New Venture Creation, w/ Commendation, PGDip., New Venture Creation, w/ Commendation at Queen's University Management SchoolBSc, Music Technology, First Class Hons, BSc, Music Technology, First Class Hons at Queen's University Belfast
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Github Skills (5)
webmock10
httparty10
testing10
rspec10
ruby10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jnunemaker/httparty
Jun 2017 - Oct 2022
:tada: Makes http fun again!
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 13 comments in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:John's contributions primarily involve improving the testing infrastructure for the HTTParty library. They replaced the deprecated Fakeweb testing framework with Webmock, updating numerous tests to use the new framework. Furthermore, they refactored existing tests for digest authentication, redirects, and content parsing to ensure comprehensive coverage and maintainability, and they consistently applied the `#to_return` method for stubbing requests. Their work ensured the reliability and quality of the HTTParty library.
httpartyruby
JonMidhir/ruby-knn
Aug 2017 - Mar 2021
Contributions:19 commits, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 7 months
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