shipped Platform & Packaging Engineer · 2021 — 2024
Open-Source Network Software, Rebranded
Rebranded BSD-based OPNsense and Zabbix into client-specific products with a custom plugin, then packaged and distributed a company product for Ubuntu — with a proof-of-concept Windows build.
- OPNsense
- FreeBSD
- Zabbix
- Python
- PHP
- JavaScript
- Debian packaging
- Ubuntu
- Windows
At Shazab FutureTech I took mature open-source platforms and turned them into client-branded products — and owned the packaging and distribution that got that software onto real machines.
Rebranding OPNsense + a custom plugin
- Rebranded OPNsense — the BSD-based (FreeBSD) firewall & gateway platform — into a client-specific product, reworking its appearance and presentation to match the client’s brand using Python, PHP and JavaScript.
- Built a customized OPNsense plugin on the platform’s native plugin system, tailored to the client’s requirements, with thorough testing and debugging across builds.
- Set up the packaging & distribution pipeline for the rebranded OPNsense — the package bundled the custom plugin, so a single install delivered both the rebrand and the tailored functionality.
Rebranding Zabbix
- Rebranded Zabbix — the monitoring & analytics platform — into a client-branded product, customizing its UI and presentation to the client’s specifications.
Packaging & distribution
- Packaged and distributed the company’s product for Linux (Ubuntu) — Debian packaging, versioning, dependency management, and repository maintenance, with compatibility testing across target environments.
- Built a proof-of-concept distribution for Windows, mirroring the Linux packaging approach so the same product could ship to Windows machines. (The product itself was developed by a separate team; my focus was the packaging and distribution layer.)