Justin Rowles
Full Stack Engineer at The Guardian
Winchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJustin Rowles is a pragmatic full stack engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating high-availability systems across media, utilities and government sectors. Comfortable across Scala, Java, DevOps and AWS, he repeatedly ships production services— from The Guardian’s image management tooling to terabyte-scale map tile services at Ordnance Survey—often improving reliability and deployment pipelines. A frequent refactorer and backend-focused contributor, he blends hands-on coding with infrastructure know-how to smooth teams’ delivery and incident-free operations. Based in Winchester, he works mostly as a contractor by choice and prefers roles that value technical breadth and autonomy. An unusual strength is turning legacy systems into well-instrumented, testable services, evidenced by his contributions to The Guardian’s grid repo and stream metrics work.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Honours, Mathematics, Honours, Mathematics at University of Southampton
French
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Github Skills (10)
refactoring10
java9
amazon-elasticsearch9
elasticsearch-api9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
javas9
elasticsearch9
aws-s37
iphone6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/grid
Sep 2018 - Apr 2021
The Guardian’s image management system
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:83 reviews, 422 commits, 136 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Justin's commits primarily focused on refactoring and updating existing code, including specifying Java versions and removing comments. The user made changes to various files, including those related to the image management system, ElasticSearch configuration, and metadata editor notifications. The commits also included the addition of functionality for testing Kinesis stream metrics.
management-systemproductionguardianimage-management
aug24/dockerdemo
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:63 pushes, 14 branches in 10 days
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