Herb Mcnew
Site Reliability Engineering Manager at WebstaurantStore
Fairfax, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHerb Mcnew is a Site Reliability Engineering Manager based in Fairfax, Virginia, with nearly three decades of cross-functional experience and nine years in senior engineering leadership roles. He leads geographically distributed teams, mentoring both managers and individual contributors while driving DevOps and cloud engineering practices. Herb's hands-on background spans VoIP, DBA, network engineering, systems administration, web design and software development, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective on deploying IP-based services in Unix/Linux environments. He progressed through technical and managerial roles at Canonical and GitHub before joining WebstaurantStore, blending infrastructure depth with product-focused delivery. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, Herb frequently bridges gaps between operations and engineering, translating legacy systems knowledge into scalable cloud solutions.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
University of Maryland
English, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
3d-printer10
octoprint10
printer10
3d-printing10
director10
esphome10
touchscreen9
firmware9
bgp9
tooling9
load-balancer8
home-assistant8
golang8
esp82662
esp322
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hjmcnew/esphome-hs2xx3a-custom-component
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 4 reviews, 67 commits in 1 month
hs2xx3asen0395mmwave-radaresphome-componenthome-assistant
hjmcnew/esphome-configs
Mar 2022 - May 2024
Contributions:21 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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