Brooks Townsend
Senior Software Engineer II at Cosmonic
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrooks Townsend is a Senior Software Engineer II at Cosmonic with 9 years of experience building cloud-native and edge-focused systems centered on WebAssembly. He is a core contributor to the CNCF wasmCloud project, implementing Rust and Elixir backend components, OCI registry support, secure actor updates, and a developer CLI/REPL that cut iteration times from minutes to seconds. His background blends backend engineering, DevOps and security—improving Kubernetes bootstrap times by 70% at Capital One, automating CIS compliance, and authoring GitHub Actions workflows for fully automated builds and releases. Based in Washington, D.C., he pairs hands-on systems programming with open-source stewardship to help teams deploy scalable, secure polyglot apps across cloud, Kubernetes, and edge.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, General Studies, GPA: 3.68, High School Diploma, General Studies, GPA: 3.68 at William Amos Hough High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Math Minor, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Math Minor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, French
Github Skills (23)
distributed-systems10
distributed-system10
webassemby10
rust10
cloud-native10
dockerce9
kubernetes9
dockers9
docker9
devops9
kubernetes-pod9
webassembly9
blazor-webassembly8
web-assembly8
blazor-web-assembly8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
wasmCloud/wasmCloud
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
wasmCloud is an open source Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project that enables teams to build, manage, and scale polyglot apps across any cloud, K8s, or edge.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 releases, 1664 reviews, 46 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Brooks primarily contributed to the wasmCloud project by implementing core backend functionalities and improving build and deployment processes. Their work included modifying the control interface and core host components written in Rust, along with adding features for more secure actor updates. They also integrated structopt for improved command-line argument parsing and added options for secure authentication via JWT and credsfile. In addition, the user implemented changes related to OCI registry integration, allowing the host to pull actor and capability provider images.
distributed-application-developmentdistributed-applicationwasmtimesecurewebassembly-runtime
wasmCloud/nkeys
Jan 2021 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 release, 23 reviews, 22 PRs in 3 years 8 months
rustcryptographyed25519nats
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