Brian Mcgonagill
Senior Product Manager at Vector Solutions
Del Rio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Mcgonagill is a Senior Product Manager with 11+ years of experience building roadmaps and driving execution for public safety and enterprise software, currently at PowerDMS by NEOGOV. He blends technical depth—from physics research on the Large Hadron Collider and Open Science Grid work to DevOps scripting for Docker installs—with a user-first product approach that treats community feedback as the primary source of truth. At Vector Solutions and Tyler Technologies he consistently delivered >90% roadmap execution, cut bug backlogs dramatically, and helped boost product revenue and operating margins. A committed open source advocate, he runs the Awesome Open Source YouTube channel and contributes practical automation tooling that eases Linux deployments. Known for pragmatic leadership shaped by prior law enforcement and engineering roles, he prioritizes people-first cultures and measurable impact. Outside work he’s a musician, martial artist, and home-labber who enjoys self-hosted multiplayer gaming and board games with his family.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Physics, 3.76, Master of Science - MS, Physics, 3.76 at Texas Tech UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Physics, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics at Angelo State University
Spanish
Github Skills (14)
sh10
automation10
linux10
bash10
automations10
script10
docker-compose10
shell10
docker10
dockers10
scripting10
ubuntu9
debian9
centos9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
bmcgonag/docker_installs
Jan 2021 - Jul 2022
Docker and Docker-Compose install scripts for various linux distros and versions
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 31 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to automating the installation of Docker and Docker-Compose across various Linux distributions and versions. Their work involved creating shell scripts for different Ubuntu, Debian, and CentOS versions, incorporating installation of NGinX Proxy Manager and Navidrome as optional components. They also modified scripts for improved usability, including adding the current user to the docker group and fixing issues in the installation process.
docker-imagedistroslinuxdockercompose
LBBLUG/meteorBastas
Jul 2016 - Nov 2020
BASTAS with Meteor
Contributions:138 pushes, 2 branches, 7 comments in 4 years 5 months
meteor-clientmeteor
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