Dwight Hubbard
Owner & Lead Designer at Plaid Pajamas Designs
Surprise, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDwight Hubbard is an experienced infrastructure architect and systems engineer with 15+ years building and automating large-scale Unix and cloud environments for companies like Yahoo, Symantec, Rockwell Collins and MCI. He combines deep Unix expertise (Linux, Solaris, HPUX, AIX, BSD) with virtualization and orchestration skills (VCP, RHCE, VMware, OpenStack, Docker, KVM) to improve performance while cutting operational costs. At Yahoo he led platform tooling and OpenStack automation for tens of thousands of servers, bridging developer pipelines and production operations. A pragmatic coder comfortable in C/C++, Python and assembly, he also contributes to open-source tooling—improving PyPI mirror capabilities in the bandersnatch project. Now running a design and fabrication studio, he applies systems thinking to hardware prototyping with 3D printing, CNC and metal casting. His background as a US Marine Corps network specialist gives him disciplined, security-first operational instincts that shape his architecture choices.
15 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Pass, Computer Telecomunications, Computer Operations, Pass, Computer Telecomunications, Computer Operations at USMC - Computer Operations SchoolRedhat Global Learning Services
English, Japanese
Github Skills (8)
bandersnatch10
python10
configuration-management9
packaging8
pep7
mirroring6
pypi6
testing6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pypa/bandersnatch
May 2018 - May 2019
A PyPI mirror client according to PEP 381 http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0381/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 24 PRs, 85 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Dwight focused on enhancing the bandersnatch project's functionality through the implementation and refinement of filter plugins. They added features such as blacklist and whitelist plugins, contributing to the project's mirroring capabilities. Additionally, the user improved the build process by modifying setup.py and updating documentation configuration, ensuring the project's maintainability and ease of use.
pythonpypidevpypi-mirror-clientpep381
dwighthubbard/confset
Mar 2013 - May 2020
Set values for package settings in /etc/default/packagename from the command line
Contributions:47 commits, 9 PRs, 41 pushes in 7 years 3 months
settingscli
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