Ben Brandt
Software Architect at eventellect
League City, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBen Brandt is a software architect with nearly two decades of experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver cloud-native, event-driven systems on the Microsoft Azure stack. He blends hands-on development in C#, Python, and TypeScript with 15 years of CI/CD and DevOps leadership, driving migrations to AKS and CNCF tooling while optimizing cloud costs and scaling strategies. At Pinnacle he balanced individual contribution with technical leadership—cutting Azure SQL spend by 75%, enabling 100x data-science GPU performance gains, and building self-service pipelines and preview environments. He contributes to open-source logging work (LibLog) improving Serilog integration, reflecting a pragmatic focus on observability and reliable telemetry (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana). Based in League City, TX, he’s equally comfortable sketching high-level product design and diving into infrastructure-as-code with Terraform/ARM and complex auth patterns like OAuth2/OIDC/SAML. Colleagues rely on him for practical architecture, cost-aware cloud transformation, and mentoring teams through modern platform adoption.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
College of the MainlandBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Systems Engineering at University of Houston-Clear Lake
English
Stackoverflow
377reputation
11kreached
10answers
4questions
Github Skills (15)
logging10
serilog10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
dotnet9
asp-net9
unit-testing9
net9
azure6
microsoft-identity-platform6
oracle6
entity-framework6
ef-code-first6
asp-net-core6
azure-active-directory6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
damianh/LibLog
Nov 2015 - Sep 2017
LibLog is a single file for you to either copy/paste or install via nuget, into your library/framework/application to provide a logging abstraction.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the `LibLog` library, which provides a logging abstraction. Their commits focused on enhancing the library's integration with Serilog, a popular logging framework. Key changes include updating how Serilog's context is used, adapting log levels, and adding support for mapped context destructuring. Several test cases were also added to verify the new functionalities.
copy-pasteloggingapplication-frameworknugetabstraction
bbrandt/knightlycode
Jan 2017 - Sep 2018
Source for my blog site
Contributions:40 commits, 5 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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