Stuart Gunter
Principal Consultant at Equal Experts
Greater Southampton Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStuart Gunter is a Principal Consultant and security-focused engineering leader with 13 years of experience building cloud-native software and establishing specialist cybersecurity practices for clients from startups to blue-chip enterprises. He created and scaled Equal Experts’ cybersecurity consulting capability across multiple regions, translating technical security into marketable propositions that delivered measurable business outcomes. Stuart blends hands-on software and platform engineering with strategic security leadership, aligning risk-driven security strategies to business goals while enabling rapid delivery and new market exploration. He has led global OTT security at Sky and consulted across financial services, government, retail, media and more, bringing practical experience in both delivery and governance. An active contributor to production tooling, his Dropwizard work improved runtime logging configurability and operational flexibility—an example of his preference for principled, context-aware solutions over one-size-fits-all “best practice.” Educated at the University of Oxford, he pairs strong academic grounding with a track record of turning complex risk into pragmatic controls and capable teams.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, MSc at University of OxfordNational Certificate, National Certificate at Durban University of Technology
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Github Skills (8)
dropwizard10
javas10
configuration-management10
logging10
java10
testing9
rest9
web-framework9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dropwizard/dropwizard
May 2014 - Aug 2014
A damn simple library for building production-ready RESTful web services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Stuart primarily contributed to the Dropwizard logging module, enhancing its configuration capabilities. Their work focused on allowing customization of stack trace formatting in Syslog appenders and refactoring configuration properties. Additionally, they added a task to dynamically adjust logging levels at runtime. These changes improved the flexibility and operational control of Dropwizard applications.
production-readyweb-services-restfulrestful-webservicesjax-rsproduction
composable-systems/dropwizard-cassandra
May 2014 - Apr 2017
Contributions:218 commits, 11 PRs, 61 pushes in 2 years 11 months
dropwizardcassandra
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