Brian Lane
Research Foundation - Senior Fellow
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Lane is a seasoned engineering executive and research fellow with over 40 years of engineering experience and 30 years specializing in filtration, during which he led Parker Hannifin’s Global Filtration Business to more than double revenue and become the industry’s most diversified filtration platform. He blends strategic M&A and product portfolio leadership—leading due diligence and integration for major acquisitions including Clarcor—with hands-on technical invention as the named inventor on 12 international patents. More recently he founded enaBL Growth LLC and serves as a Senior Fellow at The University of Akron while advising industry and academia on technology commercialization and growth strategy. Brian also contributes to open-source infrastructure and installer tooling in the Linux ecosystem, applying his DevOps and systems experience to projects like dracut and Anaconda to improve reliability across complex deployments. Known for clear cross-functional communication, he operates comfortably from C‑Suite strategy sessions to shop-floor execution and customer-facing innovation programs. His uncommon mix of deep domain expertise in filtration and practical software/DevOps contributions makes him a versatile leader for organizations bridging hardware, software and global markets.
21 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Business Business Administration and Management General, Bachelor of Arts - BA Business Business Administration and Management General at Northumbria University
Github Skills (30)
fedora10
automated-deployment10
python10
scripting10
drc10
initramfs10
reinstall10
bash10
templater10
template-engine10
rhel10
system10
script10
installer10
build-automation10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
weldr/lorax
Aug 2011 - Jan 2023
Tools for creating images, including the Anaconda boot.iso, live disk images, iso's, and filesystem images.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:114 reviews, 3247 commits, 1462 PRs in 11 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the development of the build and distribution tooling for creating images. Their work involved implementing features to copy and include necessary files into the root filesystem. They also contributed to the setup and maintainence of the deployment by adding support for additional cloud provider profiles, fixing problems with installing packages from the internal build and managing those. The user also worked on modifying template parameters and supporting new image types.
vmsisovcenterdiskanaconda
rhinstaller/anaconda
Mar 2014 - Nov 2022
System installer for Fedora, RHEL and other distributions
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 38 commits, 321 PRs in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on improving the installation process and system configuration of the Anaconda installer. They addressed issues related to FIPS mode, updated the post-install scripts, and made changes to handle live image creation. Additionally, the user modified code to check space during TUI kickstart and added code to correctly handle s390 installations, ensuring the installer operates correctly across different platforms and configurations. Furthermore, they introduced optimizations by caching results.
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