Branden Rolston
Software Engineer at Upbound
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBranden Rolston is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years building back-end, DevOps, and distributed systems software from national labs to fast-moving startups in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has deep hands-on experience in package management and testing for large-scale cluster software—contributing notable pkgpanda features and integration tests to the DC/OS datacenter OS project. His career spans roles at Upbound, D2iQ, Disqus, and TripIt, blending production engineering with research experience gained at national labs. Known for pragmatic refactors and clarifying API surfaces, he focuses on reliable, testable tooling that scales in complex infrastructure environments.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
2008, 2008 at University of Nebraska at Omaha
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Github Skills (11)
test-integration10
python10
package-management10
integration-testing10
command-line-interface8
command-line8
cli8
systemd6
dockers5
bash5
docker5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dcos/dcos
May 2016 - Aug 2019
DC/OS - The Datacenter Operating System
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:396 commits, 199 PRs, 1143 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Branden's commits primarily focus on package management and testing within the DC/OS (Datacenter Operating System) repository, especially within the context of the pkgpanda tool. They implemented new features for the `pkgpanda add` command and added integration tests for these features. The user also refactored the code, separating package management actions from the CLI and modifying parameter names for improved clarity.
kernelvdiisolationpythondcos
branden/mesosphere-charts
Oct 2019 - Apr 2022
Contributions:111 pushes, 92 branches in 2 years 5 months
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