Greg Bowler
Creative Technologist
England, United Kingdom
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SeniorGreg Bowler is a director-level software architect and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience designing server-side applications for web and embedded devices. He leads multiple ventures including Bright Flair Ltd, Authwave, and PHP.Gt, blending hands-on development with strategic product direction. Greg is pragmatic about code quality—“code. refactor. expunge. repeat.”—and has deep expertise in back-end systems, CI/CD, and DevOps practices. His open-source work includes contributing to the widely used shields badges project, adding CircleCI integration and improving badge generation and error handling. Based in England, he combines commercial delivery experience across fintech and creative tech with a background in computer science from the University of Derby. Colleagues describe him as a steady technical leader who prefers clean, auditable solutions over flashy complexity.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
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Github contributions (5)
badges/shields
Jan 2015 - Nov 2019
Concise, consistent, and legible badges in SVG and raster format
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:17 commits, 4 PRs, 26 comments in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily contributed to integrating CircleCI for continuous integration and implementing badges for the service. They added routes, implemented badge responses, and improved the code for handling CircleCI status. Furthermore, the user addressed issues with JSON formatting and debugging error messages within the badge generation logic. Their work also extended to integrating Codacy coverage badges and updating Packagist-related functionality.
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php-actions/phpunit
Sep 2019 - Nov 2022
Run PHPUnit tests in Github Actions.
Contributions:38 releases, 1 review, 150 commits in 3 years 2 months
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