John Redwood
DevSecOps Cloud Operations Solutions
Canberra, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Redwood is a DevSecOps and Cloud Operations specialist with 11 years of experience delivering secure, production-grade systems for Australian federal services, currently supporting AIR and Medicare Online at Services Australia. He has deep Java/Angular and JEE roots, having progressed from hands-on development and team leadership to senior cloud operations across multiple Departments of Human Services programs. John blends software engineering discipline with operational rigor—applying ITIL-informed incident practices and DevSecOps controls to large public-sector platforms. He contributes to the popular Backstage open-source project, focusing on backend Scaffolder actions and GitLab integrations, showing a practical commitment to improving developer experience. Based in Canberra, he pairs broad system knowledge with a pragmatist’s approach to shipping reliable, auditable solutions at scale. An early-career background in frontline support gives him an uncommon empathy for operational impact and user-facing resilience.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Software Development, Information Technology, Diploma of Software Development, Information Technology at Canberra Institute of TechnologyHigher School Certificate, Higher School Certificate at Wollongong High SchoolHigh School Certificate, 7-10, High School Certificate, 7-10 at Figtree High School
Github Skills (11)
scaffold10
typescript10
backstage10
nodejs10
typescripts10
gitlab-api10
typescript-types10
web-developer9
zod9
portal9
cicd8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
May 2024 - May 2026
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 14 PRs, 73 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:John primarily contributes to the backend functionality of the Backstage project. Their work involves creating and modifying actions within the Scaffolder backend, specifically related to GitLab integration. These changes include adding new actions for editing GitLab issues and allowing pipeline triggers to accept variables. They also focused on fixing and updating existing code, as shown by the commits addressing case sensitivity in LDAP configurations.
backstageinfrastructuredxdeveloper-experiencedeveloper-portal
JRKR/jsf-gravatar-core
Jun 2016 - May 2025
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 comment, 2 issues in 9 years
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