Norm Maclennan
Principal Software Engineer at Cimpress
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolNorm Maclennan is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building and securing cloud and infrastructure platforms, currently focused on driving operability, cost-effectiveness, and developer productivity at Cimpress in Greater Boston. He brings deep systems and tooling expertise across C#, Ruby, SQL, PowerShell and Linux, and has a track record of enabling teams through CI/CD, monitoring, and automation. Norm contributes to notable open-source projects like osquery, where he enhanced Linux package and source visibility—an indication of his attention to system-level observability and package-management nuances. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and a technical leader, he blends hands-on engineering with education and process improvement to reduce risk and accelerate delivery.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Networking and Information Systems, BS Computer Networking and Information Systems at Wentworth Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (16)
monitoring10
linux10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
system-programming10
debian10
sql9
intrusion-detection9
network-intrusion-detection9
gridview6
asp-net6
language-agnostic6
javascript6
jquery6
swing6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
osquery/osquery
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Norm primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of Linux system-level table functionality within the osquery project. Their work involved modifying and expanding the `deb_packages` table, specifically addressing compatibility issues and incorporating a revision field to enhance data accuracy. Furthermore, the user implemented a new `apt_sources` table, demonstrating a focus on extending the system instrumentation capabilities of osquery by including the package source information. This suggests a deep engagement with package management and system monitoring functionalities.
instrumentationanalyticsoperating-systemsecuritysql
maclennann/rake-terraform
Mar 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 8 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 years 11 months
rakehashicorp-terraformhashicorpterraformterraform-provider
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