Marshall Asch is a DevOps engineer with a decade of experience building reliable backend and infrastructure systems, currently driving platform work at Plex while completing an MSc in Computer Science at the University of Guelph focused on data storage in mobile ad hoc networks. He brings hands-on cloud and automation expertise from roles across Value Connect and university teaching assistantships, with practical experience on AWS, Azure, and GCP and a history of shipping both Android and web APIs earlier in his career. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved hardware support and color-parsing features in the popular liquidctl project, demonstrating attention to low-level device integration as well as system tooling. Comfortable bridging research and production, he pairs academic rigor with pragmatic DevOps practices and a penchant for solving device and storage interoperability challenges.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing, Honours, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computing, Honours, Computer Science at University of Guelph
Cross-platform CLI and Python drivers for AIO liquid coolers and other devices
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:133 reviews, 170 commits, 32 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Marshall's contributions primarily revolved around enhancing the `liquidctl/liquidctl` repository, focusing on adding support for new hardware. They implemented features to support color hex prefixes and expanded the color parsing capabilities within the utility functions. The user also addressed specific hardware issues, such as adding fixes for LED control on Hydro Platinum devices and integrating support for the ASUS ROG RTX 2080ti graphics card. Their commits included several changes to the codebase, including the introduction of new drivers.
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