Neil Hanlon
Advisory Board Member at OpenStack
Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Hanlon is a Linux and open source systems engineer with 13+ years of experience building, scaling, and securing critical infrastructure for both cloud and bare-metal environments. A founding board member and Director of Infrastructure at the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation, he co-leads Rocky Linux release engineering and develops Peridot, the open-source build system that powers multi-architecture RPM builds and supply-chain signing. He combines hands-on expertise in RPM-based distributions, CI/CD, and cryptographic signing with community leadership across Fedora, OpenStack-Ansible, CentOS SIGs, and OpenELA. Neil also advises crisis-response platforms on resilient infrastructure and brings a pragmatic, production-first approach from his consulting work and prior network engineering roles. Outside of core infrastructure, he tinkers with radios and electronics and focuses on governance and process improvements that make open source projects sustainable.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Wentworth Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
NeilHanlon/rockylinux.org
Mar 2021 - Jun 2025
The official website of the Rocky Linux project.
Contributions:58 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 2 months
linuxrockyrocky-linux
NeilHanlon/puppet-r
Mar 2016 - Jul 2024
Puppet module for R and R packages
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 4 months
puppetrr-package
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