Kris Gesling
Business Improvement Manager - SAFE NT at Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Services
Darwin, Australia
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Top SchoolKris Gesling is a pragmatic technology and program leader with 11 years’ experience bridging open-source engineering, DevOps and community-facing public services from Darwin, Australia. Currently driving business improvement for SAFE NT, they optimise clearance workflows and ICT systems used for national police, child safety and NDIS checks while preparing for evolving national standards. Previously Kris led developer relations at Mycroft AI, contributing hands-on fixes to core NLP and Raspberry Pi enclosure projects and improving CI/test configuration for a widely used open-source voice platform. Their background spans youth engagement, humanitarian tech ethics (Humanitech), and founding GovHack in the Northern Territory, demonstrating an ability to translate community needs into resilient technical and programmatic solutions. Comfortable moving between code, policy and stakeholder engagement, Kris combines systems thinking with on-the-ground delivery in remote and diverse contexts. An unusual strength is pairing deep community development experience with practical DevOps fixes that improve developer and user-facing systems alike.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Social Science, Community Welfare and Human Services, Bachelor of Social Science, Community Welfare and Human Services at University of NewcastleGraduate Certificate in Yolngu Studies, Graduate Certificate in Yolngu Studies at Charles Darwin UniversityCert IV Alcohol and Other Drug Work, Cert IV Alcohol and Other Drug Work at TAFE NSW Higher Education
English, Indonesian, yolŋu matha
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Github Skills (28)
debug10
python10
scripting10
bash10
cicd10
automation10
script10
parsing10
sh10
automations10
raspberry-pi10
text-parsing10
shell10
testing9
linux9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
MycroftAI/enclosure-picroft
Feb 2019 - Dec 2022
Mycroft interface for Raspberry Pi environment
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 36 commits, 20 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Kris primarily focused on maintaining and improving the Picroft environment by modifying shell scripts. Their contributions included updating package lists to prevent installation issues, correcting variable typos in configuration scripts, and fixing a type-related error. These changes improved the overall setup and update processes for the Mycroft AI platform on the Raspberry Pi.
raspberry-pirpimycroftrpi3raspbian
MycroftAI/mycroft-skills
Oct 2018 - Jun 2022
A repository for sharing and collaboration for third-party Mycroft skills development.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 497 commits, 597 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kris primarily focused on improving the build and testing configuration within the repository. They made several commits to `build_test_config.py`, debugging and refining the process of generating test configuration files. Their work included parsing pull request diffs to extract skill submodule information, and integrating author details for more accurate matching of skills during testing. Several commits show debugging efforts and iterative improvements to the configuration setup.
third-partyvoice-controlmycroftpartyapps
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