Brandon Pfeifer
Senior Software Engineer at InfluxData
Charlotte Metro United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Pfeifer is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience specializing in Linux-driven platforms, infrastructure automation, and release engineering. Currently at InfluxData, he has driven CI/CD, Docker image maintenance, and build automation for widely used projects like InfluxDB and the influxdata Docker stack. His background spans platform work at WillowTree, large-scale deployment automation at Lowe’s, and low-level C/C++ systems and PAM integrations—showing comfort from OS-level tooling to cloud-native pipelines. Known for replacing brittle shell tooling with maintainable Python solutions and enabling static-pie builds and permission hardening, he combines pragmatic engineering with a focus on reproducible releases. Based in the Charlotte metro area, he brings a blend of hands-on DevOps, performance-minded engineering, and a track record of shipping reliable systems at scale.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Appalachian State UniversityAssociate's degree Science, Associate's degree Science at Mitchell Community College
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Github Skills (24)
docker10
scripting10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
build-engine10
automation10
script10
go10
sh10
build-tools10
automations10
shell10
influxdb10
buildr10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/influxdata-docker
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Official docker images for the influxdata stack
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:26 reviews, 66 commits, 134 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily focused on infrastructure and release-related tasks within the repository. Contributions included modifying the entrypoint scripts, updating manifest files, and integrating automation for building and releasing different InfluxDB versions. The changes demonstrate an understanding of Docker configurations and CI/CD processes, specifically around automated builds and deployment pipelines. The user's work ensured the smooth release of various InfluxDB and Chronograf versions within the Docker environment.
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influxdata/influxdb
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:9 releases, 60 reviews, 113 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily focused on automating and improving the build and release process for the InfluxDB project. Their contributions included upgrading the Flux version and updating the build commands, as well as enabling static-pie builds. They also worked on updating the performance test environment and restricting file permissions. Furthermore, they replaced the shell-based package builder with a Python implementation.
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