Brad Williams
Executive Vice President at Great Lakes InfoTronics, Inc.
Fresno, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrad Williams is an Executive Vice President and hands-on software engineer with over a decade building and deploying time & attendance and labor management systems for SMBs. As a partner at Reliable Business Technology he leads end-to-end implementations, custom SQL scripting, network and virtual infrastructure management, and biometric integrations—delivering faster rollouts and rapid ROI. He combines field-facing account leadership with deep technical skills (VMware/Hyper-V, SAN/NAS, Microsoft stack) and holds advanced Infotronics support certifications. An active contributor to prominent open-source projects, he improved Hyper-V support in HashiCorp Packer and strengthened robustness in the NLog logging library, reflecting practical expertise in virtualization and backend reliability. Based in Fresno, CA, he pairs long-term channel partnerships and sales experience with a builder’s mentality for bespoke integrations and automation.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Cert, MCSE NT 4.0, Cert, MCSE NT 4.0 at ASAP ComputersAssociate, Applied Science - Information Technology, Associate, Applied Science - Information Technology at Heald CollegeET, Engineering and Technology, ET, Engineering and Technology at MHS
Github Skills (23)
nlog10
hyper-v10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net10
packer10
go10
build-automation10
virtualization10
dotnet-core10
powershell10
logging10
csharp10
configuration-management9
configuration-file9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/packer
Jul 2019 - Feb 2020
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:22 commits, 3 PRs, 12 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Brad's contributions primarily focused on enhancing and extending the Hyper-V builder within the Packer project. Their work included correcting issues in the Hyper-V builder, refactoring code, and implementing features like specifying the first boot device for Generation 2 VMs. The commits demonstrate a solid understanding of the Hyper-V environment and PowerShell scripting to manage virtual machine settings. Their work also involved improving the build process and ensuring compatibility with various Hyper-V configurations.
packer
NLog/NLog
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
NLog - Flexible and Structured Logging for various .NET Platforms
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 36 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Brad primarily focused on enhancing the NLog logging library. They made improvements to data handling, specifically enabling support for object values within context properties such as GDC, MDC, and NDC. Additionally, they addressed potential resource leaks and race conditions, modifying code related to file handling and asynchronous target wrappers. They also addressed EOL normalization in the configuration files.
dotnetnlogstructured-logginglogginglogging-library
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