Grant Mcwilliams
Author at LinkedIn
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorGrant McWilliams is an author, educator, and seasoned Linux/open source consultant with over two decades of hands-on experience building custom solutions, training Fortune 500 teams, and running Sound Linux Training and Consulting. He has taught college-level Linux and security courses for 20 years and developed certification learning paths and accelerated exam prep courses on LinkedIn Learning. His engineering work spans virtualization (Xen, XCP, KVM), cloud orchestration, secure VPN and hardened appliance development, and bespoke in-flight entertainment systems for avionics clients. Grant blends curriculum design and technical writing—contributing manpages and docs for Xen projects and editing for No Starch Press—with practical systems engineering. He’s known for creating repeatable, automated provisioning stacks (Saltstack, custom scripts) that deliver identical physical, virtual, and cloud environments with minimal attack surface. Based in Seattle, he pairs academic rigor with production-grade security and scale experience few instructors can match.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
python9
plex9
infrastructure9
remote-execution8
zeromq8
docker8
scale8
iot8
configuration-management8
infrastructure-management8
xapi8
devops7
infrastructure-as-code7
package-repository7
saltstack7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
grantmcwilliams/ClassStack
Apr 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:15 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year 5 months
grantmcwilliams/Gnome_Hide_Clock
Sep 2016 - Jul 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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