Braxton Schafer
Systems Engineer - DevTools at Cloudflare
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBraxton Schafer is a seasoned systems engineer and DevTools specialist with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently at Cloudflare after leading Kubernetes efforts there. He blends deep Linux sysadmin roots, a software engineering background, and endpoint/security experience to design pragmatic DevOps architectures and mentor teams through complex migrations. Braxton has a track record of moving from hands-on support roles into architecture and tooling—running his own software practice (Octospin) while shaping infrastructure at Epic and Cloudflare. Based in Madison, WI, he pairs big-picture thinking with hacker curiosity, often tinkering beyond work hours to prototype automation and security improvements.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Diploma de escuela secundaria, High School Diploma Diploma de escuela secundaria at New Glarus High SchoolBachelor of Arts (AB) Major: Computer Science (hons.); Minor: Spanish, Bachelor of Arts (AB) Major: Computer Science (hons.); Minor: Spanish at Ripon College
Spanish, English
Github Skills (149)
authentication10
prometheus-exporter10
monitoring10
puppet10
shell10
cli10
oauth2-client10
endpoint10
snapshots10
dns-record9
csi9
python9
gcp9
oidc-client9
security9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bjschafer/AFD2
May 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
bjschafer/k8s-generators
Apr 2024 - Apr 2025
My home K8S cluster config powered by CDK8S
Contributions:2 PRs, 565 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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