Brandon Wagner
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Reston, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Wagner is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in cloud-native infrastructure, backend systems, and DevOps automation, currently working at Oxide Computer Company and previously a senior engineer at AWS. He has deep hands-on experience across EC2, EKS, Karpenter, and related tooling, contributing notable enhancements like ARM-aware instance-type selection, IPv6 support, and release automation for AWS Helm charts. Brandon regularly contributes to high-profile open-source projects (kops, Karpenter, eks-charts, amazon-ec2-instance-selector), improving robustness of Kubernetes autoscaling and instance-selection tooling. He combines systems-level engineering with pragmatic automation—writing CI/CD and packaging scripts, refining CLI UX, and hardening image build pipelines. Based in Reston, VA, he pairs academic foundations in computer science with practical production experience solving cloud resource and automation challenges. Colleagues would describe him as someone who prefers shipping reliable, well-tested infrastructure improvements over flashy demos.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at George Mason University
Github Skills (40)
ec10
unit-testing10
amazon-eks10
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
cloud-computing10
testing10
command-line-interface10
bash10
cloud-infrastructure10
dockers10
cicd10
release-management10
automation10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
aws/amazon-ec2-instance-selector
Mar 2020 - Aug 2022
A CLI tool and go library which recommends instance types based on resource criteria like vcpus and memory
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:29 releases, 112 reviews, 91 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to improving the project's command-line interface (CLI) by updating documentation and fixing usage text. They also addressed bugs in CLI parsing and added unit test coverage. Additionally, the user implemented new features to the CLI related to new functionality. The contributions also included refactoring the code to support aggregate instance-type-base filter.
golangclimemoryec2go-library
aws/aws-node-termination-handler
Nov 2019 - Feb 2022
Gracefully handle EC2 instance shutdown within Kubernetes
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:31 releases, 175 reviews, 181 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Brandon contributed to the project by updating the Go version and addressing various linting issues within the codebase. They also integrated Kustomize for Kubernetes configurations and updated tests for the spot termination feature, including checking for pod eviction. Furthermore, the user implemented configurations via environment variables and CLI arguments for greater flexibility and implemented monitoring for both spot interruption events and scheduled maintenance events. They also refactored the code structure to use Go packages.
golangmaintenance-eventsec2shutdownspot-instances
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