Brandon Shroyer
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Shroyer is a software engineer and data scientist with 11+ years building parallel and distributed systems across domains from astrophysics simulators to container orchestration and mobile video processing. He blends hands-on systems engineering—contributions to Cloud Foundry’s Diego and CLI work on the widely used RabbitMQ server—with a quantitative bent that led him into optimization and machine learning for production problems like fuel route planning and employee misconduct detection. Comfortable moving between low-level performance tuning (e.g., multithreaded video pipelines and power models for ARM CPUs) and higher-level model operationalization, he routinely turns performance data into actionable improvements. Based in the New York metro area, he pairs academic rigor (M.S. in Computer Science, physics background) with consulting experience that includes client-facing requirements gathering and building technical hiring screens.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Case Western Reserve UniversityB.S., Physics and Astronomy, B.S., Physics and Astronomy at University of Rochester
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Github Skills (17)
elixir10
testing10
command-line-interface10
rabbitmq10
command-line10
test-automation10
cli10
erlang9
message-broker9
amqp8
messaging8
tdd7
microservices6
apache-kafka6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Open source RabbitMQ: core server and tier 1 (built-in) plugins
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:34 commits, 5 PRs, 17 pushes in 9 days
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to the RabbitMQ server's command-line interface (CLI) tools. Their work involved implementing new commands such as `add_user`, `delete_user`, `list_users`, `set_user_tags`, `authenticate_user`, `change_password`, `clear_password`, and `list_permissions`. They also wrote extensive tests to validate the functionality of these new CLI commands, using a testing framework (likely ExUnit given the Elixir code). These changes directly impact the usability and administrative capabilities of the RabbitMQ server.
rabbitmqamqpmessagingamqp-0-9-1amqp1-0
bdshroyer/burrow
May 2020 - Dec 2022
Networks in Golang
Contributions:74 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
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