Steve Waterworth
Independent Consultant at inkThistle Ltd
Barton-le-Street, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarSteve Waterworth is an independent consultant and APM specialist with 11 years focused on guiding observability startups from disruption to mainstream, including hands-on roles at Wily, AppDynamics, Instana and Asserts.ai. He blends technical marketing, presales expertise and practical engineering—contributing front-end and back-end features to open-source demo apps—to help organisations adopt open source observability quickly and realise value through automation and intelligence. Known as “The Mechanic,” he translates deep domain knowledge into clear product narratives and pragmatic implementations that layer ML-driven insights on top of existing stacks. Based in North Yorkshire, he pairs a hacker’s curiosity (self-described IoT hacker and mad hatter) with decades of enterprise Java and microservices experience to solve tricky production problems and accelerate time-to-value.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (19)
api-rest10
javascript10
mysql10
api-design10
restful-api10
css10
microservices-application10
java10
javas10
angularjs10
spring-boot10
html10
rest-api10
microservices10
docker8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
instana/robot-shop
Jan 2018 - Sep 2021
Sample microservices application for playing with
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Back-end Developer
Front-end Developer & Back-end DeveloperContributions:280 commits, 42 PRs, 214 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Steve made improvements to the front-end user interface by adding a "message" feature and enhancing the styling with CSS. They also contributed to the back-end, implementing a new shipping module with Java and integrating a database for city data. The user further developed new features by adding auto-complete functionality and modifying routes for the cart and payment functionality. This indicates contributions to both the front-end user experience and back-end service implementation.
spring-bootperformance-monitoringrobotdockermicroservices
steveww/pypodinfo
Feb 2022 - Aug 2022
A simple application written in Python
Contributions:29 PRs, 189 pushes, 39 branches in 6 months
pythonpython3
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