Brandon Helms
Tech Lead Senior Staff Engineer at dbt Labs
San Antonio, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Helms is a Tech Lead and Senior Staff Engineer based in San Antonio with 11 years of experience building secure, high-velocity infrastructure and security programs across startups and enterprise environments. He currently leads technical strategy at dbt Labs while also running xSecurity to help seed-stage teams adopt declarative, maintenance-free Kubernetes stacks. His background spans hands-on offensive and defensive security, CISO-level leadership, and DoD/Navy operational experience, giving him deep expertise in building resilient systems under pressure. Brandon has a thoughtful blend of product-minded infrastructure work and pragmatic security engineering, having stood up offensive operations teams and driven security automation at scale. He’s motivated by challenge and growth rather than a traditional ladder, and brings a practical ethos: design systems that minimize the need for dedicated maintenance headcount.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Thomas Edison State UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Information Security Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Information Security Engineering at SANS Technology Institute
Github Skills (180)
elt10
analytics10
slack10
data-modeling10
dbt10
business-intelligence10
dbt-cloud10
proxies9
golang9
security9
analytics-engineering9
rdp9
api-management9
firewall9
ssh9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
number3ai/pegasus
Aug 2024 - Mar 2026
Pulumi project for standing up AWS tech stack focused around EKS
Contributions:82 PRs, 199 pushes, 84 branches in 1 year 7 months
awspulumi
Cr0n1c/dlink_shell_poc
Jan 2018 - Jul 2018
Dlink 615/815 shell PoC
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
shell
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