Brad Heffernan
IT Manager Senior System Engineer at Horizon Christian School
Greater Adelaide Area Australia
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Top SchoolBrad Heffernan is an IT Manager and Senior System Engineer based in Greater Adelaide with eight years of hands-on experience building and maintaining Linux-first infrastructure for education and enterprise environments. Currently leading IT at Horizon Christian School, he blends systems engineering, onsite support, and tooling automation to keep services reliable while minimising downtime—he openly prefers Bash over Windows updates. His background includes senior onsite engineering roles at New Era Technology and open-source work as creator and maintainer of the Arch-based HefftorLinux distribution, demonstrating practical distro-building and ISO tooling skills. Trained in IT and a former tradesman boilermaker, Brad pairs methodical, hardware-aware problem solving with software automation to deliver resilient, maintainable systems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate IV in Information Technology (ICT40120), Cyber/Electronic Operations and Warfare, Certificate IV in Information Technology (ICT40120), Cyber/Electronic Operations and Warfare at Australian College Of Commerce & Management - RTO Code 1441Certificate III in Engineering – Fabrication Trade, Metal Fabricator, Certificate III in Engineering – Fabrication Trade, Metal Fabricator at Adelaide Training & Employment Centre: RTO code 0022
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Github Skills (36)
script10
neofetch10
ffmpeg9
bash9
distro9
command-line9
system-information9
ffmpeg-python9
python8
monitor8
electron7
typescript7
vim7
gtk7
visual-studio-code5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
arcolinux/arcolinux-welcome-app
Jan 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:67 commits, 63 pushes in 1 year 1 month
BradHeff/hefftor-test-repo
Jan 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:223 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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