Brandon Raabe
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer at HashiCorp
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Raabe is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building reliable, automated infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, currently driving SRE work at HashiCorp from Phoenix. He combines a strong sysadmin pedigree with software-centric tooling — Terraform, Kubernetes, and Go are core strengths — and a pragmatic focus on standards, quality, and reusable automation. His background includes deep automation and release experience at Apollo and Copado, where he led cloud provisioning, deployment automation, and tooling integrations across teams. An active contributor to long-lived DevOps projects like Chef, he has shipped backend and UX improvements (including download progress and configuration refactors) that improve operational feedback and developer experience. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who bridges scripting-level fixes and production-grade systems design, often surfacing small, high-impact improvements that reduce toil.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (AS), Information Technology, Associate of Science (AS), Information Technology at Anthem College-Phoenix
English
Github Skills (13)
configuration-management10
chef-client10
chef-solo10
automation10
automations10
ruby10
http9
devops9
testing9
infrastructure9
command-line7
cli7
command-line-interface7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
chef-boneyard/chef-dk
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
DEPRECATED: A streamlined development and deployment workflow for Chef Infra platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Brandon focused on enhancing the configuration and setup processes within the ChefDK project. They implemented a `knife_config` method for quick access to Chef configuration and added functionality to apply default values from the user's configuration during setup. Further contributions involved refactoring to allow for configuration via both generator and knife settings. The user's work also included the creation of unit tests to ensure functionality.
continuous-deploymentcontinuous-deliverydeploymentinfrachef
chef/chef
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Brandon contributed significantly to the Chef Infra project by implementing and refining features related to progress tracking during file downloads. Their work included adding attributes like `show_progress` and `progress_interval`, integrating them with the `http_client_opts`, and creating a `ProgressBar` class for displaying download progress updates. The user also refactored the code to send resource events for download progress. These changes enhanced the user experience by providing better feedback during file retrieval operations.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
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