Brandon Maister
Software Engineer at Lacework
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Maister is a full-stack software engineer with 15 years of experience building customer- and developer-facing products, currently working at Lacework and running Maister, LLC as a consultant. He has taken projects from napkin sketches to production, shipping single-page apps, resilient cloud infrastructure, and data ingestion systems while working across React, Java, Rust, Python, and Node. At Materialize he built high-throughput sources for data lakes and Kafka, and his open-source contributions include meaningful backend work on projects like the Nikola static site generator and the Chrono Rust time library. He combines hands-on engineering with SRE discipline—leading container migrations, observability and CI improvements, and large-scale data migrations—while also mentoring teams and designing hiring/onboarding frameworks. Comfortable with both deep systems work and product-facing features, he often bridges gaps between architecture, operations, and developer experience. Based in New York, he favors pragmatic, testable solutions and has a track record of improving tooling and observability that pays off long after initial delivery.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Hunter College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (36)
markdown10
datetime10
serializable10
serializer10
python10
static-site-generator10
timeago10
date-format10
get-time10
serialization10
deserialization10
dates10
markdown-it10
profiling10
timed10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
chronotope/chrono
Feb 2017 - Oct 2021
Date and time library for Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 5 reviews, 277 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Brandon implemented and refactored code related to deserialization and serialization of date and time values, specifically focusing on timestamps. They introduced a newtype for `DateTime` and `NaiveDateTime` to handle deserialization from timestamps and improved the handling of timestamp representations. Furthermore, the user made changes to support both `rustc-serialize` and `serde` for deserialization and implemented serialization methods. Additionally, the user focused on making the serialization process more efficient and maintainable by leveraging `serde`'s `serialize_with` attribute.
datetimecalendartimeagorustinterval
getnikola/nikola
May 2012 - May 2012
A static website and blog generator
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:Brandon made several key contributions to the Nikola static site generator. They addressed a bug related to handling file names with periods, improved the integration with the Python Markdown library, and refactored the post compilation process to be based on file extensions. The user's work involved modifying core Python files to enhance functionality and improve the project's flexibility in processing different content types.
pythonstatic-siteblog-generatorjavascriptmarkdown
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