Brandon Philips
Chief Technology Officer at CoreOS, Inc.
Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Philips is a seasoned technology executive and former CoreOS CTO with 26 years of experience building distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure, and developer-facing platforms. He blends hands-on systems engineering—kernel work, USB/serial device quirks, and Go backend development—with cross-organizational leadership in product, marketing, and sales enablement. A prolific open-source contributor, he’s pushed significant fixes and modernization work to cornerstone projects like etcd and autotest, and has deep expertise running container-focused Linux distributions such as CoreOS Container Linux. Comfortable moving between low-level kernel patches and high-level architectural strategy, he’s known for improving reliability and automation in both production and test environments. Based in Oregon, he pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with a history of scaling technical teams and developer ecosystems.
26 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at Oregon State UniversitySarasvati Language School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
autotest10
go-modules10
path-manipulation10
filesystem10
python10
wp-api10
testing10
databases10
linux10
distributed-systems10
usb10
c1110
winapi10
linux-kernel10
file-operations10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
etcd-io/etcd
Aug 2013 - Jun 2021
Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 1 review, 263 commits in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily focused on updating the Go module import paths to use the new `go.etcd.io/etcd/v3` versioning scheme, ensuring compatibility within the Go ecosystem. They made extensive code modifications across multiple files, updating package imports and fixing potential issues. The user's contributions also included updates to the build process with scripts that automate the bill-of-materials generation, and a fix for go routine filters in the test utility.
etcdcriticalconsensusdistributed-systemreliable
luvit/luvit
Feb 2012 - Mar 2013
Lua + libUV + jIT = pure awesomesauce
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:88 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 1 year
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily focused on improving the luvit project's compatibility with the Windows operating system by fixing path and file system related issues. They addressed assumptions within the codebase, modifying path separators and directory structures. Additionally, the user implemented bug fixes related to the event loop and refactored code to incorporate the path.join function. They also made changes to build and testing scripts.
luajitluvitlibuvluajit
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