Custom Development
Custom Development
ByWater Solutions fully embraces the ideals and practices of open source software. All custom development sponsored by our partners and developed internally is publicly available at ByWater's GitHub repositories.
After a development has been tested and approved by the sponsor, we submit the changes to the community in the preferred format (most often a patch or a pull request).
At ByWater, we believe transparency is a key to success. That is why we submit all the custom developments, plugins, tools and documentation we create. After all, sharing is caring! Our Development Team provides:
- Active leadership in the community
- Librarian driven enhancements
- 100% of code contributed to the community
Developers
Kyle Hall
Director of Development & Operations
Kyle Hall
Director of Development & Operations
Kyle is the Senior Developer at ByWater Solutions. He received his B.S in Computer Science and M.S. in Information Technology from Edinboro University of PA.
Kyle has spent his entire career as part of the Koha community working to make Koha better than ever. His work not only included enhancing Koha itself, but also authorship of the Koha Offline Circulation tool and an untold number of Koha plugins. He is also the author of Libki, an Open Source library kiosk management system.
Nick Clemens
Head of Koha Development
Nick Clemens
Head of Koha Development
Nick is a librarian from Vermont. He became interested in Koha when his libraries migrated to the ILS. As part of the VOKAL consortium he became involved in the Koha community, testing and signing off patches and eventually writing patches of his own. He is currently a member of the Koha QA team, and has served as release maintainer and release manager.
Nick is called the sonic screwdriver because you can point him at any problem, he will make a lot of noise (a good deal of loud typing) and something will happen.
Lucas Gass
Developer
Lucas Gass
Developer
Lucas received his MLIS from San Jose State University. He spent 7 years working in public libraries and 4 as a systems librarian. In his free time, Lucas loves skiing, mountain biking, and anything outdoors.
Andrew Fuerste-Henry
Pipeline Coordinator
Andrew Fuerste-Henry
Pipeline Coordinator
Andrew received his MLIS from the University of Iowa and has worked as an adult services librarian and department manager in public libraries in Iowa and Illinois. His library experience runs the gamut from designing and teaching beginners computer classes to organizing Nerf blaster capture the flag games. His introduction to Koha and Bywater was at the Carnegie-Stout Public Library in Dubuque, Iowa, where he helped guide their selection of and migration to a new ILS.
Laura Escamilla
Developer
Laura Escamilla
Developer
Laura received her BA in Psychology from the University of South Florida and she attended the same university for her Masters in Library and Information Sciences. She has worked for several public library systems, but it was in her role as a Teen Services Librarian that she developed her passion for software development. From creating viral virtual escape rooms to interactive websites, her excitement for tinkering with software led her to her career as a developer for ByWater Solutions. In her free time, Laura enjoys spending time with her son, playing video games, and reading
Lisette Scheer
Koha Development
Lisette Scheer
Koha Development
Lisette has a bachelor's in Anthropology and Museum Studies from Central Washington University. She enjoys digging down to the root cause of problems and helping find solutions. Lisette enjoys spending time with her partner and pets, playing board games, and playing video games.
