Brandon Holtsclaw
Sr Software Engineer & DevOps Technologist at Ubuntu
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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SeniorBrandon Holtsclaw is a senior software engineer and DevOps technologist with 18 years of experience building high-scale web applications and CMS-driven sites, specializing in PHP, WordPress, and Drupal. He combines front-end craftsmanship (HTML5/CSS3/jQuery) with server capacity engineering capable of handling thousands of requests per second and pragmatic backend PHP/MySQL development. As an independent contractor he partners with teams from solo engagements to Fortune 100 projects, and as a long-time Ubuntu Core Developer he maintains the apt-mirror tool and contributes to server orchestration via Juju. Known for turning complex CMS and infrastructure challenges into elegant, standards-driven solutions, he brings both deep hands-on implementation skills and polished client-facing communication. Based in Kansas City, he blends digital marketing instincts with DevOps rigor to create memorable, user-focused experiences that scale.
18 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (16)
debian-packaging10
sh10
configuration-management10
automation10
script10
automations10
shell10
scripting10
documentation9
git6
symlink6
drupal6
wordpress6
php6
jquery6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apt-mirror/apt-mirror
Nov 2007 - Jul 2015
Official apt-mirror source.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:50 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Brandon's contributions primarily focused on setting up and configuring the `apt-mirror` package. They added an `install.sh` script for automating installation and configuration, including creating necessary directories and moving files. The user also made changes to the `postmirror.sh` script, providing examples of post-mirror operations. Additionally, the user integrated the `apt-mirror` manual into the installation process by using `pod2man`.
apt-mirrorlinuxapt
CloudHeroDevOps/comments-evolved
Jul 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 1 year 1 month
wordpresswordpress-plugincomments
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