Richard Foley
Senior Perl Developer At Dstny Automate, Pioneering Call2Teams And Carrier Automate
Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolRichard Foley is a seasoned backend developer with 25 years of hands-on experience specializing in Perl, shell scripting and SQL across Unix/Linux environments and major RDBMS like Oracle and MySQL. Currently a Senior Perl Developer at Dstny Automate, he has helped pioneer telecom automation products such as Call2Teams and Carrier Automate while also supporting managed hosting and monitoring solutions. Richard pairs deep legacy-language expertise with modern ops tooling (Nginx, Nagios) and a strong SSH-first, remote workflow, making him effective at maintaining and evolving critical infrastructure. An author of Perl debugging references and long-tenured contributor to the Perl ecosystem, he brings both practical codecraft and institutional knowledge to complex backend systems. Based in Tarragona, he is open to extending his part-time capacity for targeted projects that need reliable, low-level systems expertise.
25 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Foundation degree, Fine/Studio Arts, General, Foundation degree, Fine/Studio Arts, General at Central School of Art and Design, Holborn, City of LondonPeperharow
English, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (40)
python10
mqtt10
iot10
automation10
privacy10
home-assistant10
raspberry-pi10
home-automation10
garden9
asyncio9
internet-of-things9
custom-fields9
wordpress-plugin8
wordpress8
jekyll7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hrendoh/PayPal-Express-Checkout-example
May 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 comments in 11 months
yapceurope/yef-www
Oct 2012 - Jun 2017
Public website of the YAPC Europe Foundation
Contributions:24 commits, 9 pushes in 4 years 8 months
jekyllfoundation
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