Nicholas Hadaway
Systems Engineering Analyst at Field Engineer
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Hadaway is a seasoned systems engineering analyst with nine years of focused experience and over two decades supporting businesses and data centers across the Chicago–Milwaukee corridor. He blends deep Linux/Unix and network administration expertise with hands-on monitoring and automation skills (LogicMonitor, Nagios, APM/NPM, SNMP, Ansible proofs-of-concept) to keep complex hybrid environments reliable and proactive. Nicholas has led large-scale operations—supporting AIX, Linux fleets, mainframes and cloud integrations—and written tooling in Python, Bash and Java to streamline day-to-day and high-capacity data transfers. Beyond IT, he brings practical electrical design, electrician-level repair, and audio engineering knowledge, reflecting a maker’s approach to problem solving and a lifetime of music performance. Known online as “the digital hippie,” he pairs open-source pedigree (Gentoo package maintenance) with a pragmatic consulting mindset for both enterprises and local businesses.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
N/A, Electrical Engineering, Music Performance, N/A, Electrical Engineering, Music Performance at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (10)
fdt10
asynchronous8
tcp8
java-nio7
java7
nagios4
monitoring2
csharp2
dotnet1
dotnet-core1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
grandmasterlinux/fdt
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
FDT is an Application for Efficient Data Transfers which is capable of reading and writing at disk speed over wide area networks (with standard TCP). It is written in Java, runs an all major platforms and it is easy to use. FDT is based on an asynchronous, flexible multithreaded system and is using the capabilities of the Java NIO libraries.
Contributions:23 pushes in 5 days
java-nioasynchronousspeeddata-transfersfdt
grandmasterlinux/karlyriceditor
Dec 2023 - Dec 2023
lyrics editor and CD+G/video exporter for Karaoke
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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