Brandon Depesa
Senior Manager, Quality Engineering at SUSE
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Depesa is a Senior Manager of Quality Engineering with nine years of focused experience driving test automation, CI/CD, and cloud-native QA for container and Kubernetes platforms. He leads automation and QA efforts for Rancher, K3s, and RKE2 at SUSE, bringing hands-on expertise in Python, Go, Jenkins, Terraform, and multi-cloud integrations (AWS, Azure, GCP). Brandon combines people leadership of onsite and remote teams with deep technical contributions—he’s an active QA contributor to the popular rancher/rancher project, adding EKS-focused tests and RBAC validation for Istio. Known for reducing costs and improving delivery velocity, he pairs practical DevOps sensibilities with a history of building test frameworks and environment automation across industries. Based in Phoenix, he also holds a BS in Cloud Computing and System Operations, reflecting a deliberate blend of formal cloud training and extensive production experience.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at North Canyon High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Cloud Computing and System Operations, Bachelor of Science - BS, Cloud Computing and System Operations at Western Governors University
English
Github Skills (18)
amazon-eks10
kubernetes10
boto10
python10
testing10
rancher10
iks10
automation10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
automations10
k8s10
k10
dockers9
cicd9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/rancher
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Complete container management platform
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:166 reviews, 123 commits, 156 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributes to the testing and validation suite of the `rancher/rancher` repository, focusing on features related to Kubernetes cluster management and cloud provider integrations (particularly AWS/EKS). Their commits involve creating tests for specific functionalities, like creating EKS clusters using boto API and validating RBAC rules for Istio. They also modified existing tests to improve functionality and add test parameters to the build scripts.
container-managementrancherdockerkubernetesorchestration
bmdepesa/validation
May 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:374 pushes, 71 branches in 1 year
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