Brandon Bennett
Staff Network Developer at CoreWeave
Evergreen, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Bennett is a Staff Network Developer with 16 years of deep networking and software engineering experience across cloud, telecom, enterprise, and education sectors, now at CoreWeave. He holds three elite certifications (CCIE R&S, JNCIE-ENT, JNCIE-SP) and even helped author the refreshed JNCIE-ENT exam, underscoring rare vendor-level expertise. His career spans hands-on architecture, large-scale datacenter design, and network automation leadership at companies like Facebook, Roblox, and Juniper. Equally comfortable in code, Brandon contributes to notable open-source projects—improving Go clients and build tooling for projects such as go-zookeeper and Facebook’s Buck—focusing on build, test, and reliability. Known for analytical big-picture thinking, he translates strategic goals into pragmatic designs and testable implementation plans. Based in Evergreen, Colorado, he blends carrier-grade operations with software-driven automation to deliver resilient, scalable networks.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Green River High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Wyoming
Github Skills (21)
package-management10
testing10
zookeeper10
homebrew10
code-generation10
go10
version-control10
build-tools10
thrift10
cicd9
ruby9
build-automation9
githubaction-workflow8
javas8
java8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
go-zookeeper/zk
Apr 2019 - Dec 2019
Native ZooKeeper client for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 19 reviews, 20 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily focused on maintaining and improving the project's build and testing infrastructure while also addressing core library functionality. Their contributions include updating the Travis CI configuration, adding a Go module definition, modifying code to address edge-case error handling in the core library, and looking for zookeeper in current directory for integration tests. The user also made structural changes to the project, refactoring its directory structure. These changes demonstrate a focus on the project's build, testing, and overall stability.
gozookeepergolang
facebook/fbthrift
May 2015 - Feb 2022
Facebook's branch of Apache Thrift, including a new C++ server.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 17 commits in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily focused on updating the Go code generation for the Thrift library. Their contributions included importing Apache Thrift's Go implementation, incorporating Facebook-specific changes, and adding support for the FLOAT data type. They also addressed formatting issues and added support for database/sql client integration. The user's work involved modifying the Go code generator to enhance its functionality and compatibility with the Thrift ecosystem.
cppthrift
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