Dave Eddy
General Manager at Buffalo wild wings
United States
Summary
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RockstarDave Eddy is a seasoned operations and engineering-minded leader with 15 years of experience blending hands-on software contributions and frontline management. Based in the United States, he currently runs operations as General Manager at a high-volume retail hospitality business while maintaining active involvement in open-source projects. His technical work spans full-stack micro-libraries, DevOps automation for Chef Infra (notably improving FreeBSD service handling and test coverage), and system-level tooling for SmartOS, showing comfort from user-facing libraries to OS internals. This mix of customer-facing management and pragmatic engineering gives him a rare ability to translate operational needs into reliable technical solutions and measurable process improvements.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (26)
json10
javascript10
lib10
system-programming10
event-handling10
freebsd10
c1110
c1710
chef-client10
smartos10
automation10
micro10
cgm10
chef-solo10
automations10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
TritonDataCenter/smartos-live
Jul 2015 - May 2020
For more information, please see http://smartos.org/ For any questions that aren't answered there, please join the SmartOS discussion list: https://smartos.topicbox.com/groups/smartos-discuss
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:470 commits, 10 PRs, 362 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Dave's commits primarily involve enhancements and bug fixes to the `sysevent` utility and related system components within the context of the SmartOS operating system. Contributions include the development of a tool to consume sysevents, correcting memory leaks in zoneevent functionality, improving handling of events without attribute lists, and adding support for a "ready" event. Furthermore, the user worked on creating and utilizing a node.js library for sysevent-stream subscriptions.
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chef/chef
Aug 2014 - May 2015
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:17 commits, 5 PRs, 26 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Dave focused on improving the Chef Infra automation platform by addressing issues related to service configuration on FreeBSD systems. They modified the `freebsd.rb` service provider to enhance regex matching and ensure accurate service state detection and management within `/etc/rc.conf`. Furthermore, the user added tests to verify the updated regex logic and improved the accuracy of version detection within the FreeBSD package management. Their contributions involved both code enhancements and improvements to test coverage for the FreeBSD service provider, improving the robustness of the automation platform.
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