Hi, I'm an open-source maintainer and a Principal Software Engineer at Arbisoft. I've been an Open edX Core Contributor since 2019 and joined its maintenance team in 2020; six years of keeping 150+ repositories upgradeable: Django and Python migrations, the move to GitHub Actions, and the tooling that became OSSvitals. Alongside that, I'm building AI-powered open-source application stacks under Pressingly FOSS that replace enterprise software for small and medium businesses.
By the numbers: 678 merged pull requests across 95 Open edX repositories, 4,400+ pull requests reviewed, and named maintainer of five Open edX packages.
Featured project
OSSvitals: repository health for open-source organizations, graded daily
Six years of upgrade work across 150+ repositories showed that the hard part was never the fix, it was knowing where to apply it. I rebuilt the Repo Health checks and built OSSvitals on top of them: a published scoring method and one dashboard per organization. Open edX, with 169 repositories, was the first tenant; Moneta is the second. The first thing it showed: more than half of the upgrade bot's pull requests were noise.
- 2 tenants
- 169 Open edX repositories
- 9 scored metrics
- Graded daily
- Weights and thresholds published
- Read-only MCP endpoint
Repo Health was started by Jeremy Bowman and the edX Architecture team. Co-presented at Open edX Conference 2024 with Muhammad Soban Javed.
🔧 Also Featured
🔐 Pressingly Moneta: AI-Powered Open-Source Stacks for SMBs
Currently building Moneta, a self-hosted bundle of open-source applications (Outline, Plane, Penpot, SurfSense, Twenty CRM) that replaces enterprise software for small and medium businesses.
- Built mpass-auth-proxy, the single sign-on layer across Twenty, Plane, Outline, Penpot and SurfSense.
- Shipped MCP servers for SurfSense, Plane and Outline so AI tools can work with them directly.
- Designed the Docker Compose and GKE with ArgoCD deployment topology, with branch-based promotion from foss-sandbox to foss-main.
🧩 Ecosystem-Wide Upgrades
Part of the Arbisoft squad that moved 150+ Open edX repositories through Django 3.2, 4.2 and Python 3.12.
- Coordinated the Python 3.12 migration and upgraded ten services myself.
- Wrote codemods and scripts reused across teams.
- Shared the Django 4.2 wave across the squad, with thirteen PRs of my own.
🔄 CI/CD Migration to GitHub Actions
Moved Open edX repositories off Travis CI, Jenkins and CircleCI.
- Converted nineteen of twenty-four repositories in the 2021 Travis CI wave.
- Built self-hosted autoscaling runners on AWS EKS with Kubernetes, HPA and cluster autoscaler.
- Authored shared GitHub Actions used across community repositories.
Skills and Tools
Languages and frameworks
- Python
- Django
- Django REST Framework
- React
- TypeScript
CI/CD and automation
- GitHub Actions
- GoCD
- Jenkins
- ArgoCD
- Ansible
- pytest
- Codemods
Cloud and containers
- AWS (Lambda, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3)
- GCP (GKE)
- Docker
- Kubernetes
Observability
- Datadog
- Splunk
- New Relic
- CloudWatch
Identity and AI tooling
- OAuth and OpenID Connect
- Cognito
- MCP
- Claude Agent Skills
🎓 Six Years of Open edX
Where most of these tools were used day to day.
- Owned production deployments for edX and 2U with GoCD (AMI deploy and rollback for core services), and led the knowledge-transfer handover to the incoming vendor team.
- Migrated CI from Jenkins to GitHub Actions, with self-hosted autoscaling Kubernetes runners.
- Worked through the logging move from Splunk to Datadog after 2U acquired edX, and ran internal New Relic sessions.
- Delivered platform migrations (Elasticsearch to OpenSearch, translation API v2 to v3, GitHub-sourced dependencies to PyPI) and the Python 3.8 to 3.12 and Django LTS upgrades with reusable codemods.
I am always open to connect, collaborate, or share ideas. The best way to reach me is by email at [email protected] or on LinkedIn.