John Stray
Coach Driver at Alice Silver Passenger Services
Alice Springs, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Stray is a versatile technologist and coach driver based in Alice Springs with 11 years of experience blending hands-on IT work and practical service delivery. Trained at Charles Darwin University with a Certificate III in Information Technology, he’s skilled in responsive web design, web hosting, and network administration and has applied those skills across small-business contexts. He maintains an active open-source practice creating plugins and themes for GetSimpleCMS, demonstrating a focus on lightweight, maintainable tooling rather than large frameworks. Currently operating as a coach driver at Alice Silver Passenger Services, he pairs customer-facing reliability with a background in systems and infrastructure. That combination of operational discipline and a developer’s mindset makes him adept at solving practical problems and building small-scale web solutions that stand the test of everyday use.
11 years of coding experience
Years 7 and 8, Years 7 and 8 at Broadford Secondary CollegeYears 8, 9 and 10, Years 8, 9 and 10 at Alice Springs High SchoolCertificate III, Information Technology, Certificate III, Information Technology at Charles Darwin UniversityYears 11 and 12, Years 11 and 12 at Centralian Senior Secondary College
English
Github Skills (23)
plugin10
xml9
syntax-highlighting8
php8
cms8
javascript7
syntax-highlighter7
zero-dependencies7
blog-engine6
mybb3
homebridge3
clover3
iot-device2
wifi2
whmcs2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
johnstray/gs-blog
Mar 2016 - Aug 2021
A simple and easy to use, yet powerful blog for GetSimple. With this plugin, you can create blog posts, sort posts by category, view posts in monthly archives, plus much more.
Contributions:11 releases, 53 commits, 18 PRs in 5 years 6 months
cmsblog-systemphpblog-enginegetsimple
johnstray/gs-plugin-UserManagement
Dec 2016 - Jul 2022
An advanced user management system for GetSimple CMS. This great plugin has a never-before-seen groups management feature, and the ability for an unlimited number of integrated plugins.
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 8 months
cmsabilitygroupsmanagement-systemintegrated
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