Branden Kaestner
Senior Information Technology System Engineer
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolBranden Kaestner is a Senior Information Technology System Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating high-availability virtualized infrastructures for global organizations. He specializes in VMware vSphere, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, automation with Ansible and CloudBolt, and storage/SAN management, consistently improving uptime, performance, and security in mission-critical environments. At Columbia Sportswear he supported 7,000+ employees worldwide, architected distributed virtualization and satellite systems, and led automated provisioning and patching pipelines. He mentors junior engineers, coordinates cross-functional projects, and brings practical datacenter design experience from rack elevations to firmware automation with Dell OME. Based in Boulder, CO, Branden blends enterprise-grade production ops with homelab curiosity, building resilient systems and disaster-recovery plans that bridge business needs and technical reliability.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Goucher College
English
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Github Skills (18)
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open-source5
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
brandenk514/hal
Jan 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:71 commits, 69 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
brandenk514/Ansible-Server-Roles
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Configure servers for provisioing using Ansible and deployed via AWX
Contributions:2 PRs, 180 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
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