Summary
Braeden Soetaert is a DevOps Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating backend systems, APIs, and automated delivery pipelines. He has a strong track record modernizing production services—designing Kotlin microservices serving millions of devices, containerizing with Docker/Kubernetes, and codifying infrastructure with Terraform. Braeden combines a pragmatic backend engineering pedigree (C#, C++, SQL) with production observability and CI/CD expertise (Datadog, Jenkins, Bitbucket) and a history of mentoring teams and establishing coding standards. Early experience supporting large-scale, intermittently connected systems in mining and field operations informs his reliability-first approach to distributed systems. Based in Edmonton, he brings practical, full-lifecycle ownership from legacy maintenance to zero-downtime deployments.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering at University of Alberta
High School, High School at Bellerose Composite High School