Paul Broadwith
Engineering Manager at Chocolatey Software, Inc.
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarPaul Broadwith is an Engineering Manager based in Glasgow with 11 years of experience leading teams that deliver business-critical, scalable software. He combines hands-on DevOps and back-end expertise with people leadership, currently shaping engineering at Chocolatey while holding Cloud and Datacenter MVP recognition. Paul’s open-source contributions to Chocolatey projects show a practical focus on Windows package management, automation, build reliability, and secure deployment practices (including TLS hardening and resilient reboot workflows). He’s comfortable diving into PowerShell and build scripts to fix tricky edge cases—improving uninstall templates, DLL loading behavior, and package update automation. Colleagues rely on him to translate operational pain points into repeatable processes and safer release pipelines. He brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach that balances immediate fixes with longer-term platform robustness.
10 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (26)
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chocolatey10
automation10
build-automation10
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automations10
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Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
chocolatey-community/chocolatey-packages
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Chocolatey Community Maintainers Team Packages - packages that are managed and maintained by core community team for community package repository (https://community.chocolatey.org/packages)
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:164 reviews, 104 commits, 115 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on automating and maintaining the build and update processes for various software packages within the Chocolatey repository. Their contributions included fixing silent arguments, updating URLs, and adjusting package versions, particularly within the context of the automatic package updates. They also addressed issues with locale settings and proxy bypassing within the Firefox package, demonstrating troubleshooting abilities in the package update environment.
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chocolatey/boxstarter
Jul 2018 - Oct 2022
Repeatable, reboot resilient windows environment installations made easy using Chocolatey packages
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:23 reviews, 63 commits, 51 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on automating and improving the build and deployment processes for the Boxstarter project. Their contributions included modifying build scripts to install dependencies, copy files, and build the web component. The user also added an uninstall script and functionality, demonstrating an understanding of package management. They further contributed by fixing an issue within the cinst wrapper, adding improved error handling, and enabling TLS 1.2 for secure communication, reinforcing their involvement in automation and infrastructure.
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