Julian Edwards
Technical Leader at Cisco
Greater Brisbane Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJulian Edwards is a Technical Leader at Cisco with over two decades of experience in software engineering and nine years in senior cloud and platform roles, currently leading development of a container image CVE inventory and cataloguing web application. He blends hands-on Python development with strong testing and CI/CD practices, having architected no-downtime upgrades for large web systems and automated OpenStack deployments. As founding Engineering Manager for Ubuntu MAAS and a long-time contributor to Launchpad, testtools and OpenStack, he brings deep open-source credibility and experience managing cross-functional teams. Julian has extensive technical management experience—hiring, Agile leadership and remote-first operations since 2007—routinely handling challenging timezone differences. Equally comfortable in legacy C++ systems and modern cloud-native stacks, he pairs pragmatic engineering with security-focused development. Based in Greater Brisbane, he combines practical ops knowledge (bare-metal bootstrapping, Ansible) with a strong testing ethos that shapes reliable delivery.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Information Technology at University of Surrey
Github Skills (106)
python10
command-line-interface10
linter10
stylelint10
static-analysis10
robotics10
spinner10
argparse10
command-line-parser10
webapp10
cli10
scripting10
devkit10
requirements10
static-code-analysis10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
juledwar/db-testtools
Sep 2021 - Jul 2022
Test resources and fixtures for code that does SQLAlchemy unit testing with Python
Contributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 5 commits in 10 months
pythonsqlalchemytestingunitpython3
juledwar/soufi
Aug 2021 - Oct 2024
Source finder CLI and API
Contributions:4 releases, 89 reviews, 47 PRs in 3 years 2 months
finderapisource-findercli
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