Andrew Brudnak ✨
Software Engineer III QA at SUSE
Lake Oswego, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Brudnak is a Software Engineer III in QA with seven years of experience building and validating backend and DevOps-focused systems, currently at SUSE in Phoenix. He brings hands-on expertise in container management workflows—having contributed to the well-known Rancher platform by hardening token, configmap, and pod logging behaviors and adapting builds for non-SSL environments. Comfortable shifting roles to get projects across the finish line, Andrew combines QA rigor with practical engineering skills from previous roles at T-Mobile, Sprouts, and Volkswagen. He studied web and full‑stack development and pairs a tester’s attention to detail with a developer’s mindset for maintainable, production-ready systems.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Full-Stack Web Development, Full-Stack Web Development at BloomTechAssociate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) Web Development, Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) Web Development at Scottsdale Community College
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Github Skills (15)
kubernetes10
go10
rancher10
kubectl10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
dockers9
cicd9
container9
orchestration9
orchestra9
docker9
automations8
automation8
python4
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/rancher
Oct 2021 - Mar 2025
Complete container management platform
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:141 reviews, 41 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the Rancher platform by modifying test files, specifically focusing on validation and functionality related to tokens, configmaps, and VAI (Value Added Intelligence) caching. Their work included patching token descriptions, verifying generated fields within configmaps, and updating function parameters to accommodate refactoring. Furthermore, the user addressed the environment setup by implementing changes to work with environments without SSL certificates and updating the build process to accommodate changes in the `kubeconfig` library for pod logs and kubectl commands.
containersorchestrationdockerrancherkubernetes
brudnak/linode-docker-cattle
Feb 2022 - Sep 2022
Simple terraform script to create a Docker Rancher install on Linode
Contributions:1 review, 25 commits, 33 pushes in 7 months
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