Stuart Teasdale
System Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Greater Oxford Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStuart Teasdale is a seasoned systems leader with 14+ years building and operating large-scale Unix/Linux infrastructures and DevOps practices, currently managing AWS service teams as a System Development Manager. He blends deep hands-on skills in Perl, Python and shell scripting with broad experience in automation, configuration management, virtualization, containers and cloud migrations. Stuart has led and scaled ops and engineering teams across startups and enterprise contexts—shaping architecture, procurement, security and CI/CD to deliver measurable operational improvements. His open-source work includes test and compatibility contributions to notable Python projects such as pycountry and translate, reflecting a focus on reliability and internationalisation. Known for pragmatic leadership, he steers long-term improvements while remaining an active technical contributor who prefers fixing brittle tests and integration edges that others overlook. Based in the Greater Oxford area, he combines an MSci in Physics & Astronomy with a rare mix of infrastructure depth and people-centric management.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M Sci Physics and Astronomy, M Sci Physics and Astronomy at Durham University
Github Skills (10)
i18n-js10
i18next10
localization10
gettext10
pytest10
python10
i18n-node10
test-automation10
testing10
xapian9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
translate/translate
Apr 2013 - Aug 2020
Useful localization tools with Python API for building localization & translation systems
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Localization/Internationalization Specialist
Back-end Developer & Localization/Internationalization SpecialistContributions:17 commits, 8 PRs, 9 comments in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Stuart primarily contributed to improving the functionality and maintainability of the translation tools within the repository. Their work included fixing Python 3 compatibility issues, specifically related to the `__import__` and `.items()` methods. They also addressed issues related to external library interactions, updating and fixing code involving the use of libgettextpo for correct pointer types, and decoding bytes returned from the indexer. The user focused on improving the test suite and eliminating unnecessary dependencies.
l10napipythontranslationinternationalization
pycountry/pycountry
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
A Python library to access ISO country, subdivision, language, currency and script definitions and their translations.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Stuart primarily focused on updating and adapting existing tests to align with data changes within the `pycountry` library. Their contributions involve modifying test cases to reflect updates in country, subdivision, and fuzzy search data. This work demonstrates a strong focus on ensuring the accuracy and reliability of the library's data and functionality through comprehensive testing. The updates range from inclusion of flag symbols and localization of types to switching test conditions based on changes in the dataset.
python-libraryiso-countrycreditpythontranslations
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