Brandon Gottesman
Staff Infrastructure Engineer at getGenre()
Durango, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Gottesman is a Staff Infrastructure Engineer and cloud architect with 12+ years building secure, cost-efficient, and highly available platforms across AWS and GCP for companies like Turnitin, BrightInsight, and Taulia. He specializes in Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps, CI/CD and Kubernetes automation, having delivered multi-region EKS/GKE fleets, HIPAA/HITRUST-ready platforms, and FinOps/SecOps practices that align engineering work with business outcomes. A pragmatic builder, he founded getGenre—an AI-driven music discovery platform—demonstrating hands-on MLOps, Terraform-based IaC, and real-world cost optimization. He also contributes to notable open-source tooling (kube-aws) by improving flags, dependencies, and tests, reflecting a focus on reliable, testable automation. Based in Durango, Colorado, Brandon balances technical rigor with creativity and values-driven leadership rooted in integrity and continuous learning.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science (Major) and Biological Sciences (Minor), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science (Major) and Biological Sciences (Minor) at The University of Texas at Austin
bash, javascript, go, java, c, python, html5, css, sql
Github Skills (8)
kubernetes10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml9
go9
cicd8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-retired/kube-aws
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
A command-line tool to declaratively manage Kubernetes clusters on AWS
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:37 commits, 8 PRs, 5 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Brandon focused on modifying and refining the configuration of the `kube-aws` project. Their primary contribution involved adding and removing flags related to the disable feature and other functionalities. They updated dependencies, ensuring the project utilized the latest versions of its libraries. Furthermore, the user integrated tests to validate the newly added or updated disable logic.
command-line-toolclusterskubernetes-clusterskubernetesaws
jrpeden/cs373-idb
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:147 pushes, 4 branches, 95 comments in 2 months
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