Braden Schaeffer
Staff Software Engineer - Platform Infrastructure
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBraden Schaeffer is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building cloud-native, data science and platform infrastructure, currently focusing on LLM infrastructure, observability, and performance at FullStory in Atlanta. He blends hands-on SRE/DevOps practice with software engineering in Elixir, Go, and Ruby, and deep familiarity with Kubernetes, AWS and GCP. Over multiple roles at FullStory he has driven platform reliability, experimentation tooling, and scalable data pipelines for analytics and ML workloads. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core Elixir code formatting and maintainability, reflecting a focus on long-term code quality as much as rapid delivery. Colleagues rely on him to turn messy operational problems into observable, reproducible systems that enable data science teams to move faster.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, High School, Diploma, High School at Christian Brothers High School Memphis
Github Skills (5)
elixir10
code-formatting10
unit-testing8
exunit7
genserver7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
elixir-lang/elixir
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 18 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Braden primarily contributed to the Elixir codebase, focusing on code formatting and refactoring efforts. Their commits include formatting various files related to core Elixir libraries, such as `Mix.RemoteConverger`, `GenServer`, and `ExUnit`, ensuring consistent code style. These changes indicate a focus on code maintainability and improving the overall quality of the Elixir project.
functional-languagescalablefunctional-programmingelixircompiler
bschaeffer/til
Jul 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
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