Braden Bassingthwaite
Principal Software Engineer at DigitalOcean
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Top SchoolBraden Bassingthwaite is a Principal Software Engineer based in Saskatoon with a decade of experience building and scaling cloud-native services at DigitalOcean. He progressed through successive senior engineering roles to staff and now principal level, demonstrating a steady track record of technical leadership and ownership since joining DigitalOcean in 2019. Prior to that he served as Chief Architect and long-time developer at Vendasta, giving him a strong background in product-focused architecture and team mentorship. Known for blending hands-on coding with system design, he’s comfortable navigating both legacy migration and modern distributed systems challenges. His career path suggests a pragmatic engineer who values sustainable, maintainable platforms and the institutional knowledge needed to ship reliable infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Saskatchewan
Github Skills (143)
go-api10
controller10
python10
go-language10
api-client10
command-line-interface10
proxy10
accelerator10
proto10
infrastructure10
google-cloud10
command-line-tool10
cpp10
cloud-native10
streaming10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bbassingthwaite/envoy
Feb 2022 - Feb 2025
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Contributions:38 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years
golangtencent-cloudproxyscaleedge
digitalocean/cadence-client
Jun 2020 - Mar 2024
Framework for authoring workflows and activities running on top of the Cadence orchestration engine.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 6 PRs in 3 years 10 months
cadenceorchestrationauthoring-workflowsauthoringorchestration-engine
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