Brandon Klein
Product Manager at Wagner
United States
Summary
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RockstarBrandon Klein is a product manager and former senior software engineer with nine years of experience building and improving cloud-native tooling, particularly around Azure Batch services. At Microsoft he focused on backend resilience—refactoring large-task submission flows, improving error handling and multithreaded robustness, and aligning SDKs with evolving REST APIs. Now at Wagner he applies that deep operational and engineering background to product strategy, bridging developer needs with scalable infrastructure decisions. An active open-source contributor to high-profile Azure SDK and CLI repositories, he has hands-on experience shipping fixes, documentation improvements, and DevOps-oriented changes. He combines pragmatic engineering discipline with product intuition, often surfacing non-obvious failure modes (like chunked retry strategies) into durable product features.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (24)
batching10
python10
apidoc10
multithreading10
azure-sdk10
microsoft-azure10
java10
azure-cli10
azure-batch10
javas10
api10
batch10
rest-api10
azure10
cloud-infrastructure9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-cli
Aug 2018 - Aug 2021
Azure Command-Line Interface
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 13 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Brandon's commits primarily focus on updating and modifying the Azure CLI for the Batch service. Their work involves adding new features, fixing bugs, and incorporating the latest REST API updates, which demonstrates a strong understanding of the Batch service's internal workings and integration. They also address documentation and code quality issues, fixing flake8 errors and refactoring code to improve the overall quality of the project. Additionally, the user makes changes related to networking infrastructure and configuration.
azurecommand-line-interfaceazure-clicloud
Azure/azure-sdk-for-java
Jun 2018 - Apr 2020
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Java. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://docs.microsoft.com/java/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-java.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 10 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily focused on improving the Azure Batch SDK for Java, addressing issues related to handling large task submissions and incorporating updates from newer REST APIs. Their work included refactoring the task submission process to handle potential errors related to the size of submitted tasks and retrying with smaller chunks. They also updated the SDK's dependencies to align with the latest REST API version and incorporated changes to various operations.
azureazure-sdkjavaazure-servicesazure-resources
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