Gavin Sidebottom
Senior Engagement Manager at Akamai Technologies
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGavin Sidebottom is a senior engagement manager and full‑stack, language‑agnostic software engineer with a decade of experience building and scaling backend systems and leading cross-functional teams. He blends hands‑on clean‑code advocacy with client-facing delivery at Akamai, having progressed from engineering roles at MIT and multiple startups to senior leadership. Gavin contributes to notable open‑source projects like Open edX, where he improved backend import processes and modernized Django apps to a plugin pattern—showing a knack for pragmatic refactors that improve extensibility. Based in Saint Paul, he cares about the big picture and people, aligning technical excellence with stakeholder outcomes while seeking continuous technical challenges.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at UMass BostonComputer Science, Computer Science at Ithaca College
Github Skills (10)
python10
back-end-development10
django10
courses-resource9
filesystem9
file-management9
xml8
webservice8
data-service8
backend8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/openedx-platform
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 25 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Gavin primarily focused on modifying and extending the Open edX platform's backend functionality. Their commits involved enabling and refactoring code library imports, including the implementation of a python library feature within the course content import process. Further contributions addressed code consistency by renaming 'course code lib' references to 'python lib' and modifying the instructor and bookmark django apps to follow a plugin pattern. Additionally, the user fixed unthemed error pages in Studio and LMS.
lmsopenedxbackend-service
mitodl/handbook
Jun 2016 - Jul 2021
Information on how we do what we do.
Contributions:3 reviews, 36 commits, 4 PRs in 5 years 1 month
handbook
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