Roy Harrington
Senior DevOps Engineer at University of Cambridge
Sunderland, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorRoy Harrington is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Sunderland with a 26-year IT career blending software development, networking and security. He brings hands-on expertise in Java/J2EE, Hibernate and Oracle alongside deep Cisco WAN/LAN and Check Point firewall experience, enabling him to bridge application and infrastructure concerns. After roles from developer to network technical design authority at BT and senior developer at Scott Logic, he now focuses on delivering reliable, production-grade DevOps at the University of Cambridge. Roy’s background as a consultant and small business owner gives him a pragmatic, client-focused approach to complex technical problems. He is comfortable moving between code, databases and network architecture, which helps him design maintainable systems that meet operational constraints. Colleagues value his long-term perspective and ability to translate legacy systems into modern, auditable infrastructure.
6 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
data-export8
firebase6
cli5
browser4
scale4
large-scale4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
ScottLogic/search-data-exports-backend
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Exploration of various large-scale data export techniques for browser-based users
Contributions:96 commits in 1 month
techniquesexportbrowserdata-exportscale
firebase/firebase-tools
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
The Firebase Command Line Tools
Contributions:1 comment, 2 issues in 1 day
firebasecommand-line-toolscli
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