Brenden Matthews
Software Engineer at Ellipsis Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrenden Matthews is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building high-performance, cloud-native systems and founding product-focused startups from New York. He’s authored two best-selling Rust books and maintains open-source work that has earned 10,000+ GitHub stars, with notable contributions to Marathon, Chronos, Secor and Marathon‑lb. His practical infrastructure wins include a 40% improvement in deployment reliability at Braze, a 60% query speedup at Citadel, and a 90% reduction in pipeline failures at Airbnb, complemented by mentoring and teaching a Rust curriculum to thousands. Still actively hacking on Rust (and even trading bots), he blends deep systems engineering with product instincts to turn complex problems into production-ready solutions.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (51)
mesos10
dockerce10
docker10
c-language10
python10
marathon10
imap10
back-end-development10
job-scheduler10
configuration-management10
bots10
kafka10
containerization10
dockers10
java10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
brndnmtthws/conky
Sep 2009 - Jan 2023
Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland, and other things, too
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 167 reviews, 666 commits in 13 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Brenden's commits primarily involve improving and fixing code related to the mail features within the Conky system monitor. These changes include allowing spaces in mail folder names, improving IMAP/POP3 code for handling connections, and addressing compiler errors. The user also worked on enhancing the handling of color for the code's background, particularly concerning the transparency feature, and contributed to improving and making the code more robust.
lualight-weightmonitorwaylandlight
mesosphere/marathon-lb
Nov 2015 - Jan 2017
Marathon-lb is a service discovery & load balancing tool for DC/OS
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 releases, 231 commits, 257 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Brenden made several enhancements to the Marathon-LB tool, focusing on improving its functionality and stability. Their contributions include adding health check support, improving default HAProxy templates, enabling HAProxy redispatch, and refactoring request error handling. Furthermore, the user updated documentation and refactored the codebase to use Python 3. The user also worked on implementing features such as path-based routing and made improvements to the build process and deployment configurations.
golangload-balancingdiscoveryservice-discoverymonitoring
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