Nigel Gibbs
DevOps Engineer at Gibbsoft Ltd
South Tyneside, England, United Kingdom
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SeniorNigel Gibbs is a DevOps engineer with 11 years’ experience blending software development, solutions design, and technical project delivery to drive reliable infrastructure and service delivery. Based in South Tyneside, he specialises in Linux/Unix platforms, automation and configuration management, virtualization, and consolidation, with hands-on experience in both operational support and strategic IT management. Nigel pairs technical depth with people-focused leadership—having worked across project management, training and HR—to translate complex requirements into practical, auditable solutions. As an independent contractor he contributes to open-source tooling (notably improving an Ansible Consul role with DNS and systemd enhancements), showing attention to idempotency and cross-distro robustness. Colleagues rely on him to bridge engineering rigor with clear delivery and support processes.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (11)
configuration-management10
consul10
ansible-galaxy10
automation10
automations10
dns10
devops10
ansible10
linux9
systemd9
centos8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mattfinlayson/ansible-consul
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Ansible role for consul
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nigel primarily focused on improving the configuration and functionality of the Ansible role for Consul. Their contributions include adding support for DNS recursors, implementing options for controlling interface options, and fixing idempotency issues. They also worked on the systemd control template for CentOS7, ensuring proper network initialization. Furthermore, the user added support for DNSmasq alternative nameservers.
ansible-roleconsul
gibbsoft/terraform101
Jul 2020 - Jul 2022
Simple introduction to Terraform, builds a simple webpage in AWS
Contributions:3 reviews, 16 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years
awsterraform
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