Hello smithaarow,
I'm very experienced with bash (it's my daily tool since several years), and I have already published some scripts: some of them are even available in Debian official repositories. Not only I'm very comfortable with bash built-in commands, but also with common external commands such as awk, sed, grep (obviously), fdisk and lvm (for partitioning automation), archiving tools, network, encryption, and so on.
I would like to help you in your project and to contribute to make it a great success. Sure, my bid is a little bit higher than what you suggest in your post, but I can promise you that you will not be disappointed. Feel free to contact me for more information.
martale