Michael Mcgrew
North Richland Hills, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarMichael Mcgrew is an experienced IT and infrastructure professional with more than 25 years leading operations and over a decade focused on hands-on software and systems engineering. Based in North Richland Hills, Texas, he blends deep operational leadership with practical backend development skills, notably contributing C++ code to the high-profile osquery project to extend Windows and POSIX data collection for Carbon Black sensors. He excels at bridging legacy systems and modern observability tooling, improving reliability through careful instrumentation and bug fixes. Known for turning operational requirements into robust, auditable solutions, he brings a pragmatic, security-aware approach to infrastructure and monitoring challenges.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
filesystem10
c-language10
ws-api10
winapi10
cprogramming-language10
osquery10
fileio10
wp-api10
sql9
posix9
api9
monitoring9
network-intrusion-detection8
intrusion-detection8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
osquery/osquery
Apr 2015 - Sep 2018
SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 24 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the `osquery/osquery` repository by implementing new tables related to Carbon Black sensor information. These additions involved writing C++ code to interact with system APIs and retrieve data from Windows and POSIX systems, including registry and file system interactions. The contributions specifically involved data collection and settings related to Carbon Black sensors. The user also made minor fixes to existing tables, improving the reliability and accuracy of the data retrieved.
instrumentationanalyticsoperating-systemsecuritysql
mtmcgrew/osquery
Mar 2015 - Sep 2018
SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.
Contributions:1 PR, 78 pushes, 15 branches in 3 years 7 months
instrumentationanalyticsoperating-systemsqloperating
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