Brandon Kite
Chief Technology Officer at Fuel Labs
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Kite is a Chief Technology Officer and seasoned software leader with 11 years building cloud-native and blockchain systems from Disney-scale media platforms to cutting-edge Layer-1/2 protocols. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—implementing persistent DB support, RocksDB rollbacks, Docker Compose, and infrastructure automation—with strategic product leadership at Fuel Labs. His open-source contributions to prominent projects like Dragonchain and Fuel (fuel-core, fuels-rs, sway) show deep experience in blockchain processing logic, smart contract execution, and low-level state management in Rust. At Disney he delivered scalable DRM and publishing systems and helped prototype internal blockchain use-cases, demonstrating an ability to translate research into production. Based in Seattle, he is comfortable moving between architecting resilient distributed systems and shipping the low-level fixes that improve performance and reliability. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer-executive who still digs into storage, build tooling, and contract semantics when it matters.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Applied and Computational Math Sciences - Discrete Math and Algorithms, Bachelor of Science, Applied and Computational Math Sciences - Discrete Math and Algorithms at University of WashingtonAssociates of Arts, Science Option, Associates of Arts, Science Option at Yakima Valley Community College, Yakima WA
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Github Skills (33)
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docker10
python10
rocksdb10
eway10
payment-gateway10
axway10
dockers10
compiler-compiler10
sdk10
database-design10
blockchain10
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state-management10
smart-contracts10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
FuelLabs/fuel-core
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Rust full node implementation of the Fuel v2 protocol.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:49 releases, 1660 reviews, 280 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Brandon's commits primarily focused on adding persistent database support to the Fuel core implementation. They introduced RocksDB integration for transactional updates, enabling rollbacks. Additionally, the user made substantial changes to the database and state management, including modifying the structure and implementing various storage traits, and implemented improvements to a database bug that was impacting performance. Furthermore, the user worked on updates to various fuel-* dependencies, including fuel-vm and fuel-tx, integrating the latest features.
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dragonchain/dragonchain
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
Dragonchain blockchain platform - simplified integration of advanced blockchain features
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 24 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Brandon contributed to the Dragonchain blockchain platform by implementing and modifying core backend functionality. They made significant changes to the blockchain processing logic and smart contract execution, demonstrating a focus on blockchain-related aspects. The user also added Docker Compose support and made infrastructure-related changes, including database configuration and key generation, thus exhibiting DevOps skills. Furthermore, the user fixed issues, like deduping in smart contracts, and parameterized configurations, improving the platform's stability and functionality.
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