Joe Banks

@jb3
Nottingham
he/him

Software Engineering

Ansible

Open Source

DevOps

Volunteer

Student

Coding

Kubernetes

Python

Python Software Foundation Fellow

Elixir

Broadcast Producer

Radio Broadcaster

System Administrator

Hey! I'm Joe! A student studying Computer Science at the University of Nottingham and an owner of Python Discord, a Python community with over 270,000 members from around the world.

I'm open to

participating in user research,

open source contributions,

live streaming,

writing,

making introductions,

speaking on podcasts,

partnering on side projects,

beta testing new products,

freelance roles,

speaking on twitter spaces,

internships,

and just chatting.

Contact Me

Resume

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Nov 2022 - Present

Technical Director, Nottingham Student Television (NSTV)

May 2022 - Present

Head of Technology and Digital, University Radio Nottingham

Sep 2021 - Present

Computer Science BSc, University of Nottingham

Jan 2017 - Present

Owner & DevOps Lead, Python Discord

Links

University Radio Nottingham

Nottingham Student Television

Personal Site

Portfolio

DevOps Hour Talk I delivered a talk to members of the Python Discord going into technical detail on the insides of our systems and infrastructure. In the hour long session I talked about how we use...

Kubernetes Migration At Python Discord in my role of DevOps Lead I led the migration from our SaltStack-based infrastructure to a Linode Kubernetes Cluster, rewriting all services to be compatible ...

Recipient of Excellent in Computer Science Scholarship I'm thrilled to receive the news that the University of Nottingham has awarded me with the Gold level Excellence in Computer Science Scholarsh...

Radio

URN Azure Migration In my role as Head of Technology and Digital I oversaw the migration of all our services in Google Workspace and Google Cloud to Microsoft365 and Microsoft Azure. We seamlessly ...

Varsity Ice Hockey I was responsible for the broadcast of many events throughout the Nottingham Varsity Series, which saw the University of Nottingham compete with Nottingham Trent University in a ...