Richard Bywater
Building at Bywater Projects
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Bywater is a multidisciplinary professional with 15 years’ experience blending construction, education, research and tech-focused engineering. He runs a family-oriented building business on the Gold Coast while drawing on academic research and higher-education leadership gained at RMIT to deliver projects with commercial insight, legal reasoning and strong attention to design and flow. His background in ESL and university lecturing across Australia, New Zealand and Japan underpins a collaborative, multicultural approach to stakeholder engagement and curriculum-style project planning. Technically, he contributes to open-source Ansible AWX as a back-end/DevOps developer—bringing practical Python and automation experience to integrations and validation work. Recently augmenting his credentials with law studies, he combines hands-on trade skills (Certificate IV in Building) and strategic research capabilities (Master of Commerce, Marketing) to bridge practical delivery with evidence-based project governance. An uncommon strength is his ability to translate academic rigour into client-facing construction outcomes that balance aesthetics, compliance and operational robustness.
15 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate in Law, Law, Graduate Certificate in Law, Law at University of CanberraCertificate IV in Building and Construction, Building/Construction Site Management/Manager, Certificate IV in Building and Construction, Building/Construction Site Management/Manager at Holmesglen InstituteMaster's degree, Marketing, with Distinction, Master's degree, Marketing, with Distinction at RMIT UniversityHolistic Kinesiology, Kinesiology, HD, Holistic Kinesiology, Kinesiology, HD at Kinesiology College of Energetic SciencesWinter School Program Master's degree, European Union, HD, Winter School Program Master's degree, European Union, HD at Aarhus UniversitetMaster of Commerce, Business/Commerce, General, with Distinction, Master of Commerce, Business/Commerce, General, with Distinction at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Japanese, English
Github Skills (15)
inventory-management-system10
configuration-management10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
automation10
python10
ansible-awx10
inventory-management10
ansible10
django9
unit-testing8
restful-api7
api-design7
api-rest7
rest-api7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/awx
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the Ansible AWX project, focusing on enhancing the CloudForms integration. Their work included modifying settings and plugins to support features like hostname suffixes and IPv4 address preference. They also addressed validation requirements and added unit tests to improve configuration and functionality, demonstrating proficiency in Python and related tools within the Ansible ecosystem.
pythondjangored-hathatupstream
rbywater/htmlpublisher-plugin
Jun 2017 - Nov 2020
Jenkins htmlpublisher plugin
Contributions:38 pushes, 16 branches in 3 years 5 months
jenkinsjenkins-pluginjenkins-api-plugin
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