Herb Mcnew
Site Reliability Engineering Manager at WebstaurantStore
Fairfax, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHerb Mcnew is a Site Reliability Engineering Manager based in Fairfax, Virginia, with nearly three decades of cross-functional experience and nine years in senior engineering leadership roles. He leads geographically distributed teams, mentoring both managers and individual contributors while driving DevOps and cloud engineering practices. Herb's hands-on background spans VoIP, DBA, network engineering, systems administration, web design and software development, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective on deploying IP-based services in Unix/Linux environments. He progressed through technical and managerial roles at Canonical and GitHub before joining WebstaurantStore, blending infrastructure depth with product-focused delivery. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, Herb frequently bridges gaps between operations and engineering, translating legacy systems knowledge into scalable cloud solutions.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
University of Maryland
English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
firmware10
3d-printer10
home-assistant10
esphome10
load-balancer8
touchscreen8
docker-image5
dockerfile4
docker-container4
docker3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hjmcnew/dnscrypt-proxy-docker
Mar 2025 - May 2026
Contributions:7 releases, 2 reviews, 59 PRs in 1 year 2 months
dnscryptdnscrypt-proxydnscrypt-proxy2dockerdocker-container
hjmcnew/esphome-configs
Mar 2022 - Jul 2026
Contributions:4 PRs, 36 pushes, 18 branches in 4 years 4 months
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