Andrew Brader
Senior Engineer at Lockheed Martin
Marlton, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Brader is a Senior Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and integrating applications in Linux/UNIX environments, currently driving engineering work at Lockheed Martin. He blends low-level language expertise in C/C++ and OpenCL with higher-level tooling in Java, Python, Ruby/Rails, and SQL to solve performance-sensitive and systems-integration challenges. Andrew has a particular interest in open source and high-performance computing, and his contributions to the widely used voxpupuli/puppet-r10k project show practical DevOps skills—improving Puppet Enterprise compatibility, dependency handling, and webhook functionality. A Drexel-educated computer scientist, he pairs deep technical breadth with operational pragmatism, often focusing on making complex deployments repeatable and maintainable.
12 years of coding experience
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Drexel University
Github Skills (7)
configuration-management10
puppeteer10
devops10
puppet9
centos9
testing6
git5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
voxpupuli/puppet-r10k
May 2014 - Jul 2015
Setup and configure r10k for use with git based environments in puppet
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:67 commits, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to improving the module's compatibility with different Puppet Enterprise versions and fixing related issues. They focused on updating installation procedures, particularly around dependency management and ensuring the module functions correctly across varying Puppet and PE releases. The commits demonstrate a strong understanding of Puppet's ecosystem and the specific challenges related to integrating the module within a Puppet Enterprise environment. Additionally, they added and refactored features related to webhook functionality.
puppetr10klinux-puppet-modulearchlinux-puppet-modulecentos-puppet-module
abrader/abrader-gms
Nov 2014 - Mar 2018
Git management system types and providers for Puppet utilizing Github, Gitlab, Stash APIs
Contributions:13 releases, 103 commits, 13 PRs in 3 years 4 months
gitlabpuppet
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