Rich Alloway
Enterprise Linux Development And Support Lead, OpenLogic at Rocky Linux
Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolRich Alloway is an Enterprise Linux development and support lead with over a decade of hands-on experience spanning RF/wireless engineering and Linux/Unix systems at scale. He combines deep expertise in RF propagation, PtP/PtMP/mesh wireless architectures and physical-layer protocols with kernel-level Linux development and production support for CentOS/Rocky Linux. At OpenLogic/Perforce he leads enterprise Linux efforts while contributing to notable open-source projects like OpenShot and Relax-and-Recover, improving UI, media library internals and disaster-recovery tooling. His background includes designing custom embedded hardware, firmware and antenna systems, plus building low-cost network probes and recovery solutions used in carrier environments. Comfortable managing distributed engineering teams, he pairs practical circuitry and power-system know-how with network troubleshooting, monitoring and backup strategies for mission-critical infrastructure. Based in Pennsylvania, he brings an uncommon blend of RF hardware design and enterprise open-source software stewardship.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering at PennWest California
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Github Skills (26)
yum10
c-language10
qt10
python10
scripting10
video-processing10
linux10
audio-processing10
video-editing10
disaster-recovery10
script10
sh10
shell10
cprogramming-language10
ui-design9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rear/rear
Mar 2017 - Feb 2018
Relax-and-Recover - Linux bare metal disaster recovery and system migration solution (cfr. mksysb, ignite)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:48 commits, 8 PRs, 33 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Rich's commits primarily focused on enhancing the disaster recovery solution's functionality. They added features for backing up and restoring systems managed by YUM, a package manager. This includes the implementation of scripts for restoring packages and their dependencies, handling SELinux contexts, and restoring system files. The contributions also involved improving the process of creating and restoring user accounts.
metalfreebsdbarebare-metaldisaster
OpenShot/libopenshot
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
OpenShot Video Library (libopenshot) is a free, open-source project dedicated to delivering high quality video editing, animation, and playback solutions to the world. API currently supports C++, Python, and Ruby.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 11 PRs, 32 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Rich primarily focused on enhancing the `libopenshot` library's internal logging and audio processing functionalities. They implemented high-resolution timestamping for debugging messages using C++, addressed platform-specific compatibility issues for macOS, and corrected logic errors in blur effects. The user also made adjustments to volume calculations within the audio processing module, and enhanced the project by increasing the supported frame rates for video files.
pythonvideo-effectsc-plus-plusplaybackopenshot
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