Robert Metcalf
Enterprise Architect at HIGHER DIGITAL Inc.
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Metcalf is an enterprise architect and integration-focused engineering leader with over a decade of experience designing APIs, hybrid integration platforms, and resilient deployment pipelines across academia, media, and gaming. He blends hands-on development with team building and lean/extreme programming practices, having introduced code reviews, testing standards, and pre-merge test gates to improve quality and reliability. At Imperial College he led integration governance and POCs spanning Docker, Neo4J, Cassandra and microservices, and at Grabyo he drove company-wide Open Policy Agent adoption and faster on-demand deployments. Comfortable troubleshooting brittle supplier APIs and complex on-premise ecosystems, he also contributes to open-source projects (notably security and seed-data hardening for a Kong admin GUI). Curious and pragmatic, he experiments with Docker and FaaS to minimize microservice overhead and shares lessons publicly via his technical blog.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Combined Honours Degree in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Combined Honours Degree in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at University of Exeter
Github Skills (9)
kong10
javascript10
nodejs10
api-design9
security9
environment-variables9
file-handling9
configuration-management9
database-management8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pantsel/konga
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
More than just another GUI to Kong Admin API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Robert focused on enhancing the Konga admin GUI's security and data management capabilities. Their work includes refactoring the storage of sensitive user credentials by integrating an environment variable for the seed data source. The user also updated the seed data file, allowing administrators to use an external file for their initial usernames and passwords. Furthermore, they addressed a bug where the application failed when the environment variable was not set and defaulted signup to false, enhancing security.
apiadminkong-adminkong-admin-guigui
rmetcalf9/PythonAPIClientBase
Jul 2020 - Sep 2024
Base clase for APIClients
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch, 10 tags in 4 years 2 months
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