Braden Wright
Practice Lead Application Modernization
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBraden Wright is a Practice Lead for Application Modernization with 11 years of engineering experience and a decade-long tenure evolving through hands-on and leadership roles at WALT Labs. He blends deep DevOps and cloud architecture skills with practical application and data center design, consistently taking projects from requirements through deployment and operational handoff. Known for translating emerging tools and methodologies into repeatable practices, he has led teams as Head of Engineering and Director of Services while still contributing at the technical level. Braden’s background includes platform and site-reliability work at SpotHero and broad infrastructure ownership earlier in his career, giving him a rare full-stack operational perspective. Based in the Denver metro area, he pairs a computer science foundation from CU Boulder with a curiosity-driven approach to learn and teach new technologies. He’s as comfortable scripting deployments and building CI/CD pipelines as he is shaping modernization strategy across complex environments.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (200)
test-kitchen10
api-management10
google-cloud-platform10
coredns10
terraform10
security10
gcp10
consul10
infrastructure10
dns10
google-cloud10
microservices10
k8s10
terraform-module10
argoproj10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
spothero/kubernetes-charts
Feb 2018 - May 2018
Curated applications for Kubernetes
Contributions:23 PRs, 119 pushes, 36 branches in 3 months
k8skubernetes
bradenwright/kitchen-lxd_cli
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:8 releases, 8 commits, 10 PRs in 15 days
test-kitchenkitchenrubymanaged-by-terraformlxd
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