Liz Rea
Systems Team Lead at Koha Library Software Community
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLiz Rea is a Systems Team Lead with eight years of focused experience in *nix system administration, automation, and cloud infrastructure, currently leading operations at ByWater Solutions. She brings deep practical knowledge of shell scripting, Perl, Ansible, Docker (including Swarm), Git, MySQL, EC2, OpenStack, and HAProxy, with a niche specialization in library technologies such as Koha and Wordpress. A longtime contributor to the Koha community, she manages its main web presence and understands the operational needs of open-source projects from both sysadmin and community-facing perspectives. Her background combines a liberal-arts BA with two decades of hands-on IT roles, reflecting an unusual blend of communication, documentation, and technical rigor that helps translate community needs into reliable, automated systems.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
Github Skills (25)
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cdr7
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haiku6
daemon5
dbus5
patch5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lizrea/aspen-discovery
Mar 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
bywatersolutions/patchify-koha-commit
Jul 2019 - Jan 2024
Convert a git-derived Koha patch into a patch that can be applied to a server running a Debian package install of Koha.
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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