Wade Barnes
Architect (Contract) at Quartech Systems Ltd.
Qualicum Beach, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolWade Barnes is an experienced architect and engineer with nearly two decades of multidisciplinary experience spanning software, hardware, and systems architecture across healthcare, robotics, transport, and safety industries. He has spent over a decade designing and delivering high-performance, highly available enterprise solutions for major healthcare organizations, specializing in integrating distributed technologies with legacy clinical systems in mission-critical environments. Comfortable at both executive and hands-on levels, Wade has led cross-functional teams through full product lifecycles, built CI/CD and deployment automation, and implemented monitoring and high-availability patterns. His open-source and DevOps contributions include improving build, deployment, and CI/CD pipelines for Hyperledger Indy components and creating OpenShift deployment tooling for BCGov’s von-network, showing a strong focus on infrastructure reliability and ledger-based identity tooling. Based in Qualicum Beach, BC, he also consults independently, connecting technical strategy to product outcomes and mentoring teams in pragmatic architecture and delivery. Notably, his early electronics and firmware background gives him a rare hardware-to-cloud perspective that informs robust system design.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Engineering Technology, Electronics and Software Engineering, Diploma, Computer Engineering Technology, Electronics and Software Engineering at Camosun College
Github Skills (18)
indy10
dependency-management10
docker10
hyperledger-indy10
python10
scripting10
deb10
dockers10
cicd10
script10
openshift10
automated-build10
sh10
shell10
bash9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
bcgov/von-network
Nov 2017 - Nov 2022
A portable development level Indy Node network.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Back-end Developer
DevOps Engineer & Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 34 reviews, 201 commits in 5 years
Contributions summary:Wade primarily contributed to the infrastructure and deployment aspects of the project, with a focus on OpenShift configurations. They created deployment scripts for OpenShift, enabling the use of parameters and environment variables. Additionally, the user made modifications to the server-side code, integrating environment variables for ledger synchronization and page title configurations. The contributions included integrating scripts to better support the use of the indy-cli and associated scripts.
hyperledgerverifiable-claimsvonblockchaincitz
hyperledger/indy-node
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
The server portion of a distributed ledger purpose-built for decentralized identity.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:6 releases, 173 reviews, 155 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Wade primarily focused on improving the build and deployment processes within the `indy-node` repository. They addressed issues in the `indy-node-control` tool, updated dependencies (including zmq and indy-plenum), and configured CI/CD pipelines. The commits indicate a strong focus on automating builds, managing dependencies, and resolving infrastructure-related problems, ensuring the project's build, test, and deployment processes are efficient and reliable. They also refactored the pool upgrade handler.
blockchaindecentralizeddecentralized-identitydistributed-ledgerpurpose
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