Brandon Keepers
Principal at Sea Time Tech, LLC
Holland, Michigan, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrandon Keepers is a Principal software engineer and sailing nomad with 19 years of experience building developer platforms, integrations, and open source tooling. He helped evolve GitHub into a platform-focused company—leading teams that shipped the GitHub+Slack integration and creating Probot, a widely used framework for building GitHub Apps. His contributions span back-end systems, devops, and front-end polish across many high-profile Ruby and JavaScript projects (dotenv, linguist, html-pipeline, good_job, and the probot/stale app). Known for pragmatic refactors and test-first improvements, he bridges product strategy and hands-on engineering to make developer workflows more performant and maintainable. Now running Sea Time Tech, he explores the intersection of sailing and technology while continuing to mentor maintainers and contribute to the ecosystem. Colleagues describe him as a systems-minded engineer who favors durable, well-tested solutions over shiny one-offs.
20 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (99)
language-detection10
jira-integration10
expressjs10
facebook-api10
github10
testing10
rspec10
erb10
ruby10
audit-logging10
activerecord10
eventsource10
rake10
ruby-on-rails10
markdown10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
bkeepers/dotenv
Jul 2012 - Nov 2022
A Ruby gem to load environment variables from `.env`.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 6 reviews, 351 commits in 10 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `dotenv` Ruby gem, which focuses on loading environment variables from `.env` files. Their work involved adding support for features like loading multiple files and preventing the overriding of existing variables. The user also refactored the testing suite, improving its organization.
rubydotenv
integrations/slack
Sep 2017 - Nov 2018
Bring your code to the conversations you care about with GitHub's integration for Slack
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:872 commits, 140 PRs, 230 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Brandon focused on the back-end functionality of the Slack integration repository, implementing features using a Redis-backed storage solution. They added support for pulling data from pull requests and implemented the logic for building and deploying the integration. They also updated the test suite and integrated a linter.
slackprobot-app
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