Neil Lathwood
Founder at Skelwith and District Community Trust
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNeil Lathwood is a founder and seasoned technology leader with 13 years of professional experience and a track record scaling technical teams and products from hands-on engineering to CTO-level strategy. He runs Config Services and acts as Fractional CTO at PTX Technologies, blending open-source advocacy with commercial consultancy, support and training. A long-time contributor to prominent networking open-source projects like LibreNMS and Oxidized, Neil has driven backend improvements, new device support and data-source integrations that benefit network monitoring and configuration tooling. Previously he led large technical organisations at UKFast, building and managing teams of 200+ across product and operations. Based in Manchester, he pairs pragmatic product delivery with community-focused engineering and also serves as a rural community trust trustee. He’s notable for moving between deep systems work and executive strategy while continuing to ship meaningful open-source code.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Moorside high school
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Github Skills (23)
json10
git10
network-configuration10
mysql10
alertdialog10
databases10
alertview10
alerts10
networking10
ruby10
php10
querying10
database10
snmp9
snmpd9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
librenms/librenms
Dec 2013 - Apr 2022
Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:60 releases, 456 reviews, 3659 commits in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Neil primarily contributed to the backend of the LibreNMS network monitoring system, fixing bugs and implementing new features. They worked on functionality to force devices to use specific interface entries and added support for new device types. Furthermore, they improved the alerting system by implementing SQL query enhancements, allowing custom queries, and adding more template features.
snmpcommunity-basedlicensedgplphp
ytti/oxidized
May 2015 - Apr 2018
Oxidized is a network device configuration backup tool. It's a RANCID replacement!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 43 commits, 75 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Neil primarily contributed to the `oxidized` project by adding and improving features related to data sources and device models. They implemented support for new data sources like HTTP and SQL, including features such as basic authentication, SSL certificate verification control, and single node requests. The user also added support for additional network device types, such as EdgeOS and AlteonOS, enhancing the tool's device compatibility. Further contributions include code updates to existing device model configurations and resolving unnecessary output changes.
nmsoxidizedrancidbackup-toolnetwork
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