Brandon Olin
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Stack Overflow
Portland, Oregon, United States
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RockstarBrandon Olin is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer and cloud architect based in Portland with over a decade of experience building reliable, scalable infrastructure and applying DevOps practices to enterprise environments. A Microsoft MVP, veteran systems engineer and former Marine, he blends hands-on SRE work at Stack Overflow with cloud architecture and automation expertise honed at Columbia Sportswear. He’s an active PowerShell community contributor and full‑stack maintainer on projects like Terminal-Icons, where he improved theming and build pipelines, and has modernized CI and test coverage for psake. Brandon is known for marrying pragmatic engineering with developer ergonomics—often shaving his own “yaks” to remove repetitive toil—and for translating open source innovations into measurable business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
application-icon10
pester10
wordpress-themes10
testing10
terminal-emulator10
terminal-application10
cicd10
build210
build-automation10
powershell10
wp-theme10
app-icon10
console9
psake9
appveyor8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
devblackops/Terminal-Icons
Apr 2019 - Nov 2022
A PowerShell module to show file and folder icons in the terminal
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 4 reviews, 197 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to the front-end and back-end aspects of the PowerShell module. They implemented theming support by modifying the icon and color resolution logic within the module. In addition, the user updated the module's build process, including using a configuration module to manage themes and installing dependencies. These changes indicate a focus on improving the module's functionality and user experience.
consolepowershelliconlspowershell-module
psake/psake
Nov 2017 - Apr 2022
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 releases, 1 review, 133 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Brandon's contributions primarily involve improving the build and testing infrastructure for the psake project. They integrated tools like AppVeyor and Travis CI, adding badges and configuring CI scripts. They introduced Pester tests to the project, enhancing its test coverage. Further work included refactoring the project's structure, adding a VSCode tasks file and updating module dependencies for build/test.
psakepowershellautomationbuild-automationbuild-automation-tool
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