Rowan Wookey
Freelance DevOps at Dragon Hearts
Preston, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarRowan Wookey is a seasoned Freelance DevOps engineer with 15 years’ experience simplifying server administration and designing resilient web applications from his base in Preston, UK. He specializes in Linux system administration and high-availability architectures, pairing hands-on ops skills with practical programming in PHP, Python, Node.js and related web stack technologies. As owner of Dragon Hearts and operator of rwky.net he handles end-to-end site maintenance, application design and server reliability for diverse clients. An active open-source contributor, Rowan has improved test infrastructure and fixed tricky bugs in the widely used GraphicsMagick-for-Node project, showing attention to reliability and maintainability. He brings a pragmatic, no-nonsense approach to production systems and an affinity for automating repeatable ops tasks.
14 years of coding experience
English
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
image-processing10
testing10
graphicsmagick10
nodejs10
test-automation10
json9
php9
pdo9
xml6
xpath6
curl6
simple-xml6
gitlab-ci-runner6
newline6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
aheckmann/gm
Jun 2014 - Oct 2015
GraphicsMagick for node
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:57 commits, 28 PRs, 37 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Rowan primarily contributes to the GraphicsMagick for Node.js project by fixing bugs and improving the testing infrastructure. Their work includes addressing issues related to compare tolerance, fixing failing tests for specific GraphicsMagick versions, and implementing features like the alpha method. They also refactored tests and updated them to ensure consistent use of the `finish` method, which indicates a focus on improving the reliability and maintainability of the testing suite.
graphicsmagicknodejs
passport-next/passport-facebook
Jun 2018 - Nov 2021
Facebook authentication strategy for Passport and Node.js.
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 years 5 months
facebook-authenticationnode-jsauthenticationstrategyfacebook
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