Valery Brobbey
Senior Software Engineer at Sentry (sentry.io)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolValery Brobbey is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 9 years of experience building backend and frontend systems using Java, Python, SQL/PLSQL and Perl. Currently at Sentry he works on hybrid-cloud features, billing and notification systems, contributing both model refactors and frontend billing UX. He’s an active open-source contributor to OpenGrok, improving history-page UX and cross-browser rendering for long revision messages. Prior roles at Apple and Google had him architecting video asset workflows, HLS/subtitle pipelines and large-scale data migrations, demonstrating a rare blend of media, data and systems engineering. An MIT math with computer science graduate, he pairs production-first engineering with a keen eye for user-facing details.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Math with Computer Science, BSc, Math with Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
sentry10
python10
django10
css10
webpages10
javascripts10
billing-system10
django210
database-migrations9
java9
javas9
database-migration9
react8
testing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:270 reviews, 23 commits, 61 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Valery primarily contributed to the backend and frontend of the Sentry platform, with a focus on hybrid cloud features, billing, and notification settings. Their contributions included refactoring models, adding indexes, and backfilling data related to notification settings, which involved migrating and updating database structures. They also worked on implementing frontend features related to billing, including cancel subscriptions and updating copy for pay-as-you-go options.
monitorpythonsentrydjangoerror-monitoring
oracle/opengrok
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
OpenGrok is a fast and usable source code search and cross reference engine, written in Java
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 5 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Valery primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the OpenGrok project. Their work focused on enhancing the history page, specifically addressing issues related to long revision messages by implementing collapsible summaries. They also added word break support to improve display across different browsers and styles. Further, the user integrated a feature allowing users to control the collapse threshold for revision messages.
opengrokcross-referencesearch-enginecode-searchengine
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