Neil Hemingway
Contributor at Puppet
Ross-on-Wye, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolNeil Hemingway is a DevOps-focused software engineer with 15+ years delivering greater reliability and reduced downtime for large enterprises, from Barclays to Paysafe and Solarflare. He specialises in transforming development lifecycles—introducing Puppet, CI/CD, automated testing and secure deployment pipelines—to help teams move fast with confidence and auditable change. A sustained open-source contributor, Neil has patched core infra projects (Puppet, Beaker, Buildbot) and streamlined CI/CD for high-performance projects such as OpenOnload, improving build automation and artifact management. With a mathematics degree from Oxford and hands-on experience across finance and networking domains, he combines analytical rigor with pragmatic engineering to make systems predictable and supportable. An understated strength is mentoring operations teams into modern engineering practices, turning tribal knowledge into repeatable, automated processes.
15 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Physics, Mathematics, Physics at Greenhead CollegeBA Hons (oxon), Mathematics, BA Hons (oxon), Mathematics at University of Oxford
Github Skills (13)
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
irc10
cli-framework10
continuous-integration10
buildbot10
python10
ci-cd-pipeline10
build-automation10
artifactory10
openonload8
efi7
vi7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Xilinx-CNS/onload
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
OpenOnload high performance user-level network stack
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Neil's contributions primarily revolve around the CI/CD pipeline and build automation within the OpenOnload repository. They modified Jenkins-related scripts to control autosmoke and package publishing behavior. Furthermore, the user integrated artifactory helpers into the pipeline. These changes suggest a focus on streamlining builds, deployments, and artifact management.
efvionloadopenonloadsolarflare
nhemingway/sysobject.ids
Dec 2021 - Jan 2025
Repository to store sysobject.ids file, used for snmp network discovery
Contributions:5 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 2 months
snmpnetwork-automationnetworkingbgpids
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