Stephen Reay
Software Engineer at BundleSites
Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya City Municipality, Thailand
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Reay is a pragmatic software engineer with 14 years’ experience building web applications and resilient infrastructure, currently running Koalephant to help SMBs self-manage technology without 24x7 ops. He combines hands-on full-stack development (PHP, MySQL, JavaScript) with infrastructure and DevOps expertise—managing Debian-based systems, Percona clusters, Redis and HAProxy—and has led technical projects from startup teams to agency-wide infrastructure consolidation. A longtime open-source maintainer, he builds developer tools (Alpinia, Bamboo, Mallard) and has contributed practical fixes to widely used VM templates like boxcutter/debian to improve provisioning reliability. Comfortable as both a solo contributor and technical lead, he favors doing things right first time, follows tasks through to completion, and applies creative lateral thinking to solve hard problems. Based in Thailand and relocating to South Australia, he brings an entrepreneurial mindset and a knack for turning operational pain points into automatable, self-service solutions.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Network Engineering, Diploma, Network Engineering at TAFE SA
Github Skills (10)
system-administration10
apt-get10
bash10
debian10
virtualization10
scripting9
automation9
automations9
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
boxcutter/debian
Apr 2015 - May 2017
Virtual machine templates for Debian written in legacy JSON
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 7 PRs, 4 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Stephen focused on improving the Debian virtual machine templates' setup and provisioning processes. Their contributions include fixing systemd/SSH hangs, enhancing reboot handling during provisioning, and updating the Debian configuration for new releases. The user also added a feature to retain documentation and man pages using a variable, improving customization. These changes indicate an emphasis on automation and system configuration.
vagrantvmsboxvirtual-machinepacker
Koalephant/php-src
Aug 2019 - Aug 2024
The PHP Interpreter
Contributions:55 pushes, 20 branches in 5 years 1 month
phpinterpreterphp71php7
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