Larry Lane
Systems Engineer Manager at The Home Depot
Gainesville, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLarry Lane is a Systems Engineer Manager with seven years of progressive engineering and leadership experience at The Home Depot, rising from System Engineer to manager while overseeing Windows and Linux infrastructure. He blends hands-on automation expertise—summed up by his GitHub tagline "Automation is a lifestyle"—with practical test engineering, contributing to high-profile projects like Packer and the Ansible community.windows collection. Larry has driven enhancements across Windows modules (AD, power plans, disk and user management) and bolstered Ansible provisioner test coverage for complex scenarios like SSH keys and proxy configs, reflecting a focus on reliability and repeatable operations. Based in Gainesville, Missouri, he pairs operational rigor with a developer mindset, improving both tooling and tests to reduce toil. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who surfaces obscure edge cases in automation workflows before they reach production.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at Wayland Baptist UniversityAustin Community College
Github Skills (18)
administrator10
admin10
testing10
windows-administration10
active-directory10
go10
sys10
ansible10
system-administration10
powershell10
ansible-galaxy10
yaml9
automation9
automations9
dockers5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ansible-collections/community.windows
Sep 2020 - Nov 2021
Windows community collection for Ansible
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 7 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Larry primarily contributed to the `community.windows` Ansible collection by implementing new modules and enhancing existing ones. They added a proxy option to the `win_psrepository` module and introduced a new `win_feature_info` module, demonstrating a focus on Windows system administration tasks. The user also made contributions to the `win_domain_ou` module, indicating experience in managing Active Directory objects. Further development involved changes to `win_power_plan` and `win_disk_facts` modules and user management module demonstrating a range of knowledge on the community collection.
windows-serverwindowsansible-collectionipsansible
hashicorp/packer
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 17 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Larry focused on enhancing the testing framework for the Ansible provisioner within the Packer project. They added new test cases to cover various scenarios, including SSH with private keys, proxy configurations, and different connection types. The user also updated existing tests to ensure accuracy and coverage, and addressed specific issues related to argument handling. These changes suggest a focus on improving the robustness and reliability of the Ansible provisioner through comprehensive testing.
vagrantplatformslinuxpackerdocker
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