Roy Marples
Staff Software Engineer at IQVIA
Hurn, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRoy Marples is a seasoned lead developer with 19 years of experience specializing in low-level systems, UNIX tooling, and network management, currently based in Hurn, England. He brings deep C and shell expertise, having implemented core OS-like utilities (DHCP client, terminfo handling, tab management) and contributed to libc-level and hardware communication work. As a long-time NetBSD developer and former Gentoo contributor, he pairs production-grade engineering at Instem Clinical with active open-source improvements—most notably performance and correctness fixes to the popular goaccess log analyzer. His contributions show attention to portability and robustness (kqueue integration, poll over select, nanosleep over usleep and format-string fixes). Pragmatic and detail-oriented, Roy blends systems-level rigor with practical DevOps instincts to deliver reliable, maintainable infrastructure.
19 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Presentation College, ReadingUniversity of HertfordshireNational Diploma Computer and Information Sciences, General, National Diploma Computer and Information Sciences, General at Basingstoke College of Technology
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Github Skills (21)
system-programming10
c1110
c1710
bsd10
performance-optimization10
network-protocol10
fileio10
file-handling10
file-processing10
protocols10
file-access10
operating-system10
realtime9
event-handling9
command-line9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
allinurl/goaccess
Mar 2020 - Jan 2021
GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 11 PRs, 12 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Roy contributed significantly to the `goaccess` project, implementing new features, optimizing existing code, and improving the overall functionality of the real-time web log analyzer. They added a user-name option for integration with init systems, and modified the code to replace `usleep(2)` with `nanosleep(2)` for improved performance and error handling. Furthermore, the user refactored the code to use `poll(2)` instead of `select(2)` for more efficient monitoring of file descriptors, and integrated `kqueue(2)` for file monitoring on NetBSD systems. They also addressed format string vulnerabilities and improved overall code quality.
goaccessnixweblogcreal-time
aatrens-juniper/NetBSD-src
Nov 2009 - Nov 2019
Automatic conversion of the NetBSD src CVS module, use with care. Please submit bugs/changes via https://gnats.netbsd.org
Contributions:160 commits in 10 years 1 month
netbsd
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