Greg Bowler
Director at Authwave
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGreg Bowler is a UK-based software leader with 13 years of experience architecting server-side systems for web and embedded devices. As Director at Bright Flair Ltd since 2012 and founder of Authwave and PHP.Gt, he combines hands-on backend engineering with strategic product leadership across startups and technology ventures. His work spans scalable web services, databases, and DevOps, with a track record of delivering maintainable architectures and practical, auditable solutions. In the open-source space, he contributed to the badges/shields project, driving CircleCI integration, badge generation improvements, and CI/CD tooling enhancements that streamline developer workflows. Greg holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Derby and has previously held CTO and senior software roles across multiple companies, illustrating a history of turning complex requirements into reliable systems.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Derby
English, php, javascript, css
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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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g105b/home-for-butterflies
May 2021 - Mar 2025
A website for my parents' butterfly garden.
Contributions:4 PRs, 77 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 11 months
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