Travis Everett
System Engineer at BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON ENGINEERING SERVICES, LLC
Rosenberg, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTravis Everett is a System Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience in IT and network operations, currently supporting Booz Allen Hamilton with issue resolution, application testing, and baseline assurance. A former US Navy Information System Technician, he brings disciplined system administration and network security practices to civilian enterprise environments. He contributes to notable open-source projects—improving test automation for Sphinx, hardening Nix’s macOS installer, and enhancing Doxygen’s sqlite3 generation—demonstrating a knack for reliability-focused tooling and cross-platform build systems. Comfortable across communications, computer security, and DevOps, he pairs practical engineering with ongoing CIS studies at National University. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic fixes that bridge legacy shell workflows and modern reproducible builds, as hinted by his “Fixing Shell with Nix” work.
13 years of coding experience
Associate of Arts (AA), Computer Science, Associate of Arts (AA), Computer Science at Hawaii Pacific UniversityComputer information systems, Information Technology, Computer information systems, Information Technology at National University
Github Skills (32)
filesystem10
file-management10
c-language10
sqlite10
pytest10
package-management10
python10
nix10
scripting10
sphinx10
testing10
bash10
script10
build-automation10
doxygen10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
NixOS/nix
May 2020 - Oct 2022
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:133 reviews, 48 commits, 39 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Travis primarily contributed to the macOS-specific installation scripts and configuration files within the Nix package manager repository. Their work focused on adapting the installer to various macOS versions, including Big Sur and Monterey, and addressing issues related to volume creation, file system configurations, and user permissions. They also implemented changes to ensure correct environment variable setup for different shell environments, such as ZSH, and improved the stability and usability of the Nix installation process.
nixpackage-managerpure-functionfunctional-programmingc-plus-plus
doxygen/doxygen
Mar 2015 - May 2020
Official doxygen git repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 9 commits, 4 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Travis primarily contributed to improving the sqlite3 database generation within the Doxygen project. They fixed a typo that prevented data population and addressed issues leading to junk data in the database. Their work included expanding the database schema to collect more entity and relationship information, improving usability with schema versioning and error handling, and fixing regressions. Furthermore, they implemented various improvements and fixes to the generation of the sqlite3 database.
doxygendoxygen-documentation
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