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 (120)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
dangeroustech/dangeroustech.github.io
Oct 2021 - Mar 2025
Dangerous.Tech Blog
Contributions:3 PRs, 27 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 5 months
dangeroustech/ZeroTierBridge
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
A container to provide out-of-the-box bridging functionality to a ZeroTier network.
Contributions:2 releases, 28 commits, 21 PRs in 2 months
boxout-of-the-boxzerotierdockerzerotier-network
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