Brandon Bjelland
Senior Principal DevOps Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Bjelland is a Senior Principal DevOps Engineer with 13 years of experience helping organizations deliver reliable software by taking radical ownership, empowering teams, and applying pragmatic, production-first practices. He’s a hands-on technical leader who moves fluidly between strategy and execution—building CI/CD, platform infra, and MLOps solutions while advising stakeholders and enabling long-term ownership. His background includes roles at Google Professional Services, Apple, Tableau, and as a founder consulting on cloud infrastructure, giving him deep experience across enterprise and startup contexts. Brandon’s approach emphasizes organizational archaeology and a laser focus on business outcomes, favoring demos and minimal viable production work over endless analysis. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved Terraform AWS modules’ CI and deployment workflows, reflecting his focus on practical, repeatable engineering. Based in Saint Paul, MN, he pairs systems-level thinking with clear multi-medium communication to steer teams toward sustainable high performance.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Sociology Mathematics, Bachelor of Science Sociology Mathematics at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (13)
terraformer10
aws10
terraform10
travis10
cicd10
automation-testing9
automations8
automation8
test-automation8
kubernetes6
kubernetes-pods6
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-alb
Oct 2017 - Dec 2018
Terraform module to create AWS Application/Network Load Balancer (ALB/NLB) resources 🇺🇦
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 releases, 34 commits, 56 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Brandon focused on integrating CI/CD pipelines and streamlining the deployment process. Their contributions included adding CI through Travis and updating CI configurations, including moving the Travis badge to the official org builds. They also made changes to the test files, including updating to the correct paths. Furthermore, they updated CI to use terraform 0.11.2 and KT 3.1.0.
nlbnetwork-load-balancerterraform-modulesamazon-web-servicesaws
run-at-scale/terraform-aws-skeleton
Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 7 PRs in 4 months
get-startedskeletonterraformawsterraform-module
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