Brandon Mcnama
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
Meaford, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolBrandon Mcnama is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating business-critical infrastructure across on-premise and multi-cloud environments, currently driving platform work at Shopify. He has a track record of leading teams and mentoring engineers while championing DevOps culture, building Kubernetes-based developer platforms, and implementing PCI-compliant, cost-conscious solutions like EC2 Spot-based fleets. Brandon has moved organizations from bespoke to hosted services, improved observability (including GCP-to-Datadog migrations), and reduced operational toil through automation and self-service tooling. Comfortable consulting as a cloud architect, he pairs hands-on systems work in Go and Rust with pragmatic process improvements that minimize developer friction. Based in Meaford, Ontario, he combines enterprise-scale reliability experience from companies like Ford and PagerDuty with startup and freelance agility.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario College Advanced Diploma Computer Engineering Technology/Technician, Ontario College Advanced Diploma Computer Engineering Technology/Technician at Seneca Polytechnic
Stackoverflow
631reputation
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8answers
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kubernetes
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
DWSR/.github
Nov 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years
DWSR/talos
Nov 2022 - Sep 2023
Talos Linux is a modern Linux distribution built for Kubernetes.
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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