Zane Bowers-hadley
Linux Engineer at Quadrant Information Security
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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RockstarZane Bowers-hadley is a seasoned Linux engineer with 18 years of hands-on experience automating servers, deploying CentOS at scale, and integrating single sign-on with Keycloak. He blends deep systems-level knowledge (FreeBSD ports maintainer, virtualization across ESXi, bhyve, QEMU) with pragmatic tooling—authoring Rex extensions, CPAN modules, and LibreNMS pollers to keep complex environments observable. An active open-source contributor, his LibreNMS and librenms-agent work adds real-world monitoring for services like PHP-FPM, Postfix, Nvidia GPUs and PDUs, while his Hugo project enhances CSV graphing in static sites. Comfortable troubleshooting code across Perl, Python, Ruby, C/C++ and reverse-engineering SNMP-driven systems, he excels at turning poorly documented platforms into reliable, monitored infrastructure. Based in Milwaukee, he currently applies this blend of automation, monitoring and virtualization expertise at Quadrant Information Security.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (29)
monitoring10
json10
snmp10
back-end-development10
scripting10
freebsd10
snmpd10
linux10
bash10
ntp10
network-monitoring10
php10
script10
install-script10
sh10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
librenms/librenms-agent
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
LibreNMS Agent & Scripts
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 88 commits, 226 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Zane primarily focused on enhancing the LibreNMS agent's functionality, converting existing NTP-related scripts to output JSON format. Their contributions included refactoring existing shell scripts for NTP monitoring, ensuring compatibility with various systems like DD-WRT and FreeBSD. Further efforts involved merging code and fixing the ntp-server.sh script for better compatibility and performance, alongside resolving temporary file usage issues.
librenmsagent
librenms/librenms
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:68 reviews, 67 commits, 181 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Zane's primary contribution involves adding support for various applications within the LibreNMS network monitoring system. This includes implementing features for PHP-FPM, Fail2Ban, Postfix, PostgreSQL, FreeBSD NFS, Squid, Nvidia GPU monitoring, Digipower and Cyberpower PDU, and BIND DNS. The user's work encompasses the creation of polling modules, the addition of new graph types for displaying the gathered data, and integration of these applications into the existing monitoring framework, indicating a focus on extending the system's capabilities.
snmpcommunity-basedlicensedgplphp
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