Terry Burton
Principal at AIDC 100
Greater Leicester Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTerry Burton is a Principal technologist with 19 years’ experience designing and securing large-scale IT and networked systems for enterprises, universities and global standards bodies. He combines hands-on Unix, networking and security engineering with standards leadership—authoring GS1 barcode syntax tools and co-designing alphanumeric check character schemes used in regulated environments. An elected lifetime member of the AIDC 100 and former chair of AIM’s Technical Symbology Committee, he brings rare domain expertise in barcodes, AIDC and data quality. Terry is also an active open-source contributor to FreeRADIUS, where he improved systemd integration and database module robustness, demonstrating a blend of low-level C work and DevOps pragmatism. Based in Leicester, he consults to Fortune-tier clients while mentoring teams on secure design and resilient infrastructure.
19 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons, Computer Science, First, BSc Hons, Computer Science, First at University of Leicester
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Github Skills (18)
authentication10
user-authentication10
c1110
c1710
radius10
systemd10
postgresql9
daemon9
daemons9
mssql8
mysql8
code1286
guid6
qr-code6
php6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server
Aug 2016 - Jan 2023
FreeRADIUS - A multi-protocol policy server.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 346 commits, 251 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Terry primarily contributed to enhancing the FreeRADIUS server's integration with systemd, adding support for READY and watchdog notifications. This involved modifying core C files to incorporate systemd-specific functionalities and adapting the build system. Furthermore, the user implemented socket read timeouts for the PostgreSQL module and updated the schema configuration for MySQL and MSSQL databases, optimizing performance and fixing invalid syntax.
policymulti-protocolarpdot1xbfd
terryburton/scribus
Mar 2018 - Jul 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
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