Paul Bellamy
Freelance Software Engineer at Self-Employed
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Bellamy is a UK-based freelance software engineer with 17 years of experience building distributed systems, developer tooling, and web applications across startups and blockchain projects. He combines deep backend expertise in Go, Clojure and Typescript with hands-on DevOps and systems work—having shipped core features in well-known open-source projects like FluxCD and contributed test and proxy infrastructure to Weaveworks. At Stellar and Agora he led and delivered high-throughput, multi-chain and blockchain integrations, debugging complex production issues from database drivers to chain-specific integrations. Paul thrives on experimentation and learning, currently exploring messaging and distributed systems design while also building front-end dapps and smart-contract interactions. He’s equally at home refactoring critical backend logic as he is crafting elegant user-facing interfaces, and brings an engineer-first leadership style shaped by founding a startup and long-term freelance work. An underappreciated strength is his track record of improving observability and testing practices, which repeatedly accelerated delivery and reliability in production.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Walla Walla University
Github Skills (44)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
javascript10
apidoc10
scripting10
testing10
nextjs10
dockers10
java10
javas10
script10
go10
api10
sdk10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
stellar/soroban-example-dapp
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
End-to-End Example Soroban Dapp
Role in this project:
Front-end & Smart Contract Developer
Front-end & Smart Contract DeveloperContributions:48 reviews, 91 commits, 92 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Paul initially set up a basic Next.js application, indicating a focus on front-end development. Subsequently, they integrated with a backend API to retrieve data. Further development involved implementing the core functionality of a crowdsourcing dapp, including fetching, interacting with, and displaying smart contract data within the user interface. They also added features for deposit and mint functionality, indicating a focus on the user interface as well as the underlying blockchain interaction.
reactend-to-enddappethereumblockchain
weaveworks/scope
Jun 2015 - Apr 2017
Monitoring, visualisation & management for Docker & Kubernetes
Role in this project:Full-stack & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 372 commits, 268 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Paul was primarily involved in implementing and integrating integration tests using shell scripts within the weaveworks/scope repository. They set up the initial test environment, including installing dependencies and configuring test infrastructure. Their contributions encompassed the creation and modification of various shell scripts to test the scope and weave components, validating clustering, and basic functionality. The user also addressed build and infrastructure-related tasks such as fixing build processes, and adding support for plugins, indicating experience with DevOps practices.
containersecsvisualisationdockerobservability
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