Brent Toderash

Entrepreneur and consultant in the internet space with more than two decades of experience spanning web infrastructure, open-source communities, telecommunications, software development, project management, business analysis, technical writing, and software supply-chain security.

• 2025 FAIR Recap (2026)
• YAWP.foo — Recovering philosophical fundamentals for FLOSS (2024–)
• Contributor, Modern Earth Blog (2021–)
• Contributor, AspirePress & FAIR project communications (2024–25)
• Freelance writer, CIO.com — open-source subject matter (2007)
• Contributor, Voices of the Virtual World (2007, Foreword by Kevin Kelly)
• Author, Editor, or Contributor to five published works in the emerging church space (2000s)
• Subversive Influence — Technorati Top-10 blog in its niche (2000s)
• Editor, The Penguinista! News — Linux advocacy (1998–2003)

Open Source

• Developed software supply chain security and trust models (FAIR Package Manger)
• Co-led "Hackathon" teams in development of innovative software solutions (Miami, USA & Rust, Germany)
• Managed software projects with volunteer developers to improve supply chains (AspirePress)
• Editor of The Penguinista News, a Linux and Open Source advocacy site
• Long-time participant in local WordPress meetup & speaker on open source topics

Web Development

• Analysis, architecture, design, development, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and project management for hundreds of websites.
• Developed sites with CafeLog b2 since approximately 2002, switching to its successor, WordPress. Worked with WordPress since 2004, effectively as long as it has existed; worked with every major version, including WordPress Multisite & building on WordPress as an application framework.

Telecommunications

• Pioneered in rural broadband deployments, building a wireless ISP network covering over 10,000 KM² from more than 20 points of presence using licensed and unlicensed radio spectrum.
• Used private/municipal partnerships in building ISP infrastructure, business planning, network design, equipment selection, and build project management. Earliest project was featured in a case study for Industry Canada on successfully deploying rural broadband in Canada.
• Consultation on market analysis, business cases, and broadband network design for clients such as Greater Peterborough Area Economic Development Corporation & Northwest Community Futures Development Corporation.
• Provider to other ISPs for networking, routing, and internet gateway, including wireless network expansion projects in Rosenort, Roseau River, Fisher River, St. Pierre, and Swan River areas of Manitoba.

Custom Software Development

• Managed software consulting services for development of desktop, client/server, and database applications for private organizations and Provincial Government departments, both directly and as a preferred partner for Sybase, Inc.
• Business needs analysis for software products, including in-house project for all aspects of managing an ISP, from provisioning and billing to contact and relationship management with support for remote monitoring and management of equipment and staff time tracking.

Insurance Industry

• Earned professional designation of C.A.I.B.
• Developed expertise in auto insurance for trucking fleets and other complex risks.
• Unusual at the brokerage level, held underwriting authority for an insurer for developing products, setting rates, and writing policy wordings, consistently generating an underwriting profit.
• Developed insurance policy coverages for high-value properties and unique situations including fine art collections and subscription policies to spread risk between multiple insurance carriers.