Terry Burton
Principal at GS1
Greater Leicester Area United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarTerry Burton is a Principal IT consultant and standards developer based in the Greater Leicester area with 19 years of experience designing secure, mission‑critical systems for clients ranging from Fortune 10 to global non‑profits. He pairs hands‑on engineering—including notable open‑source contributions to the widely used FreeRADIUS server (systemd integration and database module improvements)—with deep Unix and network architecture expertise. As creator of the GS1 Barcode Syntax Resource and co‑designer of an alphanumeric check character scheme, he drives data quality and regulatory compliance across GS1 Digital Link and UDI applications. An elected lifetime member of AIDC 100 and former chair of AIM’s Technical Symbology Committee, he blends standards leadership with practical security hardening and automation. Known for turning complex requirements into auditable, deployable solutions, he routinely moves between committee rooms and codebases to deliver measurable improvements.
19 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
user-authentication10
authentication10
c1110
c1710
radius10
systemd10
postgresql9
daemon9
daemons9
mssql8
mysql8
code1286
guid6
qr-code6
php6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server
Aug 2016 - Jan 2023
FreeRADIUS - A multi-protocol policy server.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 346 commits, 251 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Terry primarily contributed to enhancing the FreeRADIUS server's integration with systemd, adding support for READY and watchdog notifications. This involved modifying core C files to incorporate systemd-specific functionalities and adapting the build system. Furthermore, the user implemented socket read timeouts for the PostgreSQL module and updated the schema configuration for MySQL and MSSQL databases, optimizing performance and fixing invalid syntax.
policymulti-protocolarpdot1xbfd
terryburton/scribus
Mar 2018 - Jul 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
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