Luke Taylor
Director Of Technology at Discovery Garden
Prince Edward Island, Canada
Summary
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SeniorLuke Taylor is a Director of Technology with nearly two decades of IT experience and a 12-year focus on DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and automation, currently leading technology at Discovery Garden from Prince Edward Island. He combines hands-on skills in AWS, LAMP stacks, networking and configuration management with practical cost-management and Agile delivery experience. His career progression from network administration to CTO reflects deep operational expertise and an ability to scale teams and systems. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he improved the reliability of a widely used Apache bad-bot blocker by hardening update/install scripts and adding automated testing. Known for pragmatic architecture and strong incident-avoidance practices, he excels at turning complex infrastructure challenges into maintainable, automated solutions.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
sh10
automation10
bash10
script10
automations10
shell10
apache10
devops10
scripting10
security10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mitchellkrogza/apache-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Apache Block Bad Bots, (Referer) Spam Referrer Blocker, Vulnerability Scanners, Malware, Adware, Ransomware, Malicious Sites, Wordpress Theme Detectors and Fail2Ban Jail for Repeat Offenders
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 10 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Luke primarily focused on improving the automated update process for the Apache bad bot blocker. They updated and refactored the `update-apacheblocker.sh` and `install-apacheblocker.sh` scripts, introducing features like backup options, curl tests, and more comprehensive error handling, and the server name. These changes enhanced the reliability and robustness of the bot blocking system, improving its ability to prevent malicious traffic. The user also integrated testing to ensure the updates function properly.
referrerransomwareapache2vulnerability-scannersreferer-blocker
discoverygarden/openoffice-init
Jan 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:3 PRs, 1 push in 3 years 1 month
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