Brandon Ferguson
Principal Engineer at Soffi
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBrandon Ferguson is a Principal Engineer based in Amsterdam with 14 years of experience building reliable web and infrastructure software across startups and enterprise teams. He has deep full‑stack and DevOps chops—contributing to well-known open-source projects like Travis CI’s API, web client, and build tooling—while driving enterprise-grade customizations and build stability. At HashiCorp he progressed from senior engineer to principal, shaping cloud-native tooling and platform reliability, and now sits on the founding engineering team at Soffi. Brandon blends product-focused engineering with hands-on implementation, often tackling both UI/UX changes and backend integrations in the same sprint. His background in visual communication design combined with computer science and math minors gives him a knack for pragmatic, user-aware technical solutions.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BFA Visual Communication Design (Computer Science and Mathematics Minors from Purdue University), BFA Visual Communication Design (Computer Science and Mathematics Minors from Purdue University) at Indiana University Indianapolis
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
apidoc10
configuration-management10
travis-ci10
ruby10
emberjs10
api10
build-automation10
amqp9
scripting9
yard8
pusher8
passenger6
ruby-on-rails6
jdbc6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
travis-ci/travis-api
May 2016 - Aug 2018
The Travis CI API
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:90 commits, 91 PRs, 95 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to the backend configuration and API of the Travis CI API. The commits show implementations related to AMQPS support and configuration of the application endpoints. The user also addressed typo fixes and incorporated deprecation warnings to enhance code quality and resolve application issues.
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travis-ci/travis-web
Jul 2016 - Jul 2018
The Ember web client for Travis CI
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 45 PRs, 64 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily focused on front-end and back-end modifications related to the Travis CI web client, specifically changes to the Ember.js framework, Ruby configuration, and features relevant to Travis CI Enterprise. The contributions involved implementing new UI components, updating routes, and modifying configurations for the Pusher service. Several commits were dedicated to customizing the application for Travis CI Enterprise users and features, including the disabling of features, and setting up enterprise-specific settings.
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