Scott Fryer
Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Fryer is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sheffield with nearly three decades of hands-on experience in release and configuration management, DevOps automation, and Oracle development. He has a strong track record working across major enterprise environments—most recently at Red Hat and IBM—bringing practical expertise in Agile/JIRA processes, system testing, and cloud integrations. Scott excels at turning complex release pipelines into repeatable, automated workflows and pairs deep database knowledge with user-focused support and testing discipline. Though formally titled as a release manager and technical specialist for much of his career, he has steadily moved into senior engineering roles that blend productisation of middleware with modern DevOps practices. One less obvious strength is his longevity across large-scale, regulated environments, giving him rare experience in bridging legacy systems and contemporary cloud-native toolchains.
4 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
pingle secondaryComputing, Computing at Sheffield Hallam UniversityThe Pingle Secondary SchoolMackworth College Derby
Github Skills (35)
build-script10
docker10
ci-server10
nagios10
eclipse-temurin10
docker-commands10
github-release10
backup10
infrastructure10
installer10
docker-container10
cacert10
dockerfile10
ansible10
dockerhub10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
steelhead31/aqa-tests
Jul 2022 - Jul 2026
Home of test infrastructure for Adoptium builds
Contributions:3 PRs, 46 pushes, 26 branches in 4 years
buildsadoptiuminfrastructuretest-infrastructure
steelhead31/installer
May 2022 - May 2026
Installer files for OpenJDK binaries
Contributions:1899 pushes, 139 branches in 4 years
openjdk
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