Alan Robertson
Chief Cook And Bottle Washer at Retired
Broomfield, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Robertson is a veteran software engineer and open-source leader with over four decades of software experience and 22 years in senior roles, best known for founding the Linux-HA project and the OWASP Assimilation Monitoring Project. He combines hands-on systems programming in C, Perl, Python and C++ with deep expertise in high-availability, scalability, IT discovery and monitoring, having architected and shipped HA solutions like the widely used Pacemaker cluster manager. Alan has worn every hat from distinguished R&D engineer at Bell Labs to CXO and principal engineer, improving processes, culture and technical outcomes wherever he worked. A frequent speaker and technical evangelist, he also brings practical data-center and kernel networking experience from IBM and Charter. Even in retirement he continues to drive open-source innovation and research, including AI technology roadmaps and highly scalable discovery-driven security tooling.
22 years of coding experience
39 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Oklahoma State UniversitySCORRE Conference
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
c1710
c1110
resource-management10
cgi6
ctypes6
dbi6
sqlite6
hierarchical-data6
perl6
relational-databases6
cypher6
python6
disk-io6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ClusterLabs/pacemaker
Aug 2003 - Nov 2007
Pacemaker is an advanced, scalable High-Availability cluster resource manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:217 commits, 1 comment in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alan primarily contributed to the Pacemaker project by implementing and modifying core functionality, including adding a replacement for `strnlen` and changing the type of `strerror`. They also integrated a Local Resource Manager module, adding code from external contributors. The user's work focused on C code modifications and integration of external components within the context of a high-availability cluster resource manager.
scalableavailabilityresource-managerpacemakerscale
IT-bestpractices/root
May 2015 - Jun 2021
This is our root repository.
Contributions:27 commits, 7 PRs, 29 pushes in 6 years 1 month
root
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