Ross Barnie
Senior Software Developer at Aridhia – Digital Research Environment – DRE
Greater Glasgow Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRoss Barnie is a senior software developer based in Greater Glasgow with 12 years of experience and nearly a decade focused on Ruby on Rails. At Aridhia he combines hands-on backend engineering with security and compliance leadership—driving initiatives like OWASP SAMM adoption, a Security Champion program, and introducing Software Bill of Materials into CI/CD pipelines. He designs and implements cloud-backed APIs and data governance features, currently enabling Data Usage Conditions with the Data Usage Ontology to ensure compliant data transfers to secure workspaces. Comfortable negotiating cross-functional priorities, Ross bridges senior management and engineering to secure dedicated time and deliver measurable process improvements. His background spans legacy web ops to modern Azure Kubernetes deployments, and he has a track record of documenting and evangelising better practices across teams.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Honours, Computing Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Honours, Computing Science at The University of Glasgow
Github Skills (176)
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zeal10
cyclonedx9
syncthing9
owasp9
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sca9
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
RossBarnie/rmt
Sep 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:113 commits, 6 issues in 7 months
RossBarnie/fair-api-beta-utilities
May 2021 - Nov 2025
Useful scripts and documentation for using the beta version of the FAIR Data Services 1.0 API
Contributions:14 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 6 months
apidata-servicesuseful-scriptsfair-data
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