Lewis Kirkaldie
Chief Technology Officer at Tyranite Ltd
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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SeniorLewis Kirkaldie is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over a decade of product leadership in media systems and more than 20 years of hands-on infrastructure and integration experience. He co-founded Tyranite to modernize enterprise media storage support and bring clearer value and visibility to customers, drawing on long stints as Head of Product Management at Cinegy and engineering roles at Siemens and the BBC. Lewis combines system architecture, .NET development, AWS/Terraform, and CI/CD expertise with an eye for simplifying complex business problems and unconventional thinking about technology reuse. He has contributed to notable open-source efforts around secure, reliable transport (SRT) by automating Windows builds and CI pipelines, showing practical DevOps chops in widely used media tooling. A quick study with a knack for visualizing large systems (and an inexplicable fondness for VBScript and vinaigrettes), he bridges strategy and delivery to turn prototypes into production-grade solutions. Based in Bristol, he thrives on product roadmaps and finding the simplest effective solution to thorny enterprise problems.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (7)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Haivision/srt
Oct 2017 - Jul 2022
Secure, Reliable, Transport
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 14 PRs, 70 comments in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Lewis primarily contributed to build and deployment automation within the repository. Their work includes creating and modifying Windows build scripts (PowerShell and batch) for compiling and packaging the SRT library. They implemented features like setting version metadata for Windows DLLs and integrating with CI/CD pipelines (AppVeyor and TeamCity). They also made changes to manage dependencies, including VCPKG integration and OpenSSL configurations.
securec-plus-plussrtreliablemultimedia
Cinegy/StreamGoo
Jan 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 15 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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