Joshua Jacobs
Automation Engineer Contract
Peterborough, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJoshua Jacobs is an automation and DevOps engineer with 13 years of experience modernising infrastructure, automating business processes, and integrating legacy systems for enterprises and SMBs. As co-founder of DataSolace and currently an Automation Engineer at Arm, he specialises in Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipeline design, migrating and refactoring legacy playbooks into scalable, maintainable architectures. He combines a networking and security background with hands-on platform work—having delivered Vault, GitLab, and Kubernetes automation and created middleware to automate HR onboarding and legacy integrations. An active open-source maintainer and creator of the Smart Home Index, he focuses on self-hosted and data-sovereign solutions that bridge consumer and enterprise needs. Outside work he runs a homelab, experiments with smart-home tooling, and applies the same iterative, practical mindset to downhill mountain biking and seed-saving.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
A Levels, A Levels at Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form CollegeWoodhouse Middle SchoolBachelor of Science (BSc) Hons, Computer Networks and Security, First Class, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Hons, Computer Networks and Security, First Class at Staffordshire UniversityBiddulph High School
English
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Github Skills (99)
twitch10
youtube10
streaming-video10
push-notifications9
zerotier9
grpc9
archiving9
python9
automation9
streaming9
rest-api9
docker-image9
docker9
command-line9
monitor9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
biodrone/dotfiles
Aug 2022 - Dec 2025
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch, 4 issues in 3 years 4 months
biodrone/AutoIt
Dec 2012 - Apr 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 7 pushes in 7 years 5 months
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