Ken Barber
Software Engineer at Heroku
Earth, Texas, Australia
Summary
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SeniorKen Barber is a software engineer based in Queensland, Australia with 16 years of experience blending systems engineering, networking and DevOps into production-quality development. He has deep expertise in configuration management and Puppet ecosystem projects—contributing to PuppetDB, core Puppet, widely used modules (apt, stdlib, postgresql, firewall) and automation tooling like beaker and veewee. At Puppet he moved between backend Clojure/Ruby development, testing infrastructure and documentation, and now continues to build resilient platform software at Heroku. Known for fixing subtle edge cases (timeouts, cipher pinning, package provider quirks) and hardening test suites, he brings a pragmatic, jack-of-all-trades mindset focused on reliability and automation.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (58)
ec10
puppeteer10
postgresql10
package-management10
pup10
puppet10
scripting10
clojure-cli10
package-development10
plugin-development10
technical-writing10
testing10
rspec10
configuration-management10
firewall10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
puppetlabs/puppetlabs-puppetdb
Jan 2013 - Nov 2016
A puppet module for installing and managing puppetdb
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:132 commits, 47 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ken's contributions primarily focused on improving the PuppetDB module's functionality and reliability. They addressed issues related to TTL settings, database configurations, and system testing. The user implemented features to support zero TTL values and enabled tests. Furthermore, the user made changes to the testing infrastructure, fixing connection validation facilities and adding system tests.
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puppetlabs/puppetdb
Dec 2012 - Jan 2017
Centralized Puppet Storage
Role in this project:Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1073 commits, 239 PRs, 268 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ken Barber's contributions primarily focused on improving the PuppetDB's core functionality and ensuring its reliability. He set a default timeout for a potentially infinite loop in acceptance tests and pinned the ciphers to RSA to address issues on CentOS 6 boxes. Additionally, he was involved in merging branches to integrate code changes and resolved merge conflicts. Furthermore, his work included enhancements to the command-processing and database configuration, and in addressing issues with code in existing files.
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