Summary
Breandan Dezendorf is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 14 years building and operating large-scale systems, currently focused at Google after roles as a senior software engineer and lead DevOps/infrastructure engineer. He specializes in observability, log and metric pipelines, and high-throughput architectures—having scaled ELK to 650k events/sec and driven Kafka to nearly a million messages/sec in previous engagements. Comfortable wearing many hats, he blends hands-on systems engineering with software development and DevOps best practices to improve reliability and operability. Based in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, he pairs deep Unix/Linux administration roots with modern cloud-native SRE approaches. Beyond engineering, he hosts a podcast and communicates complex operational topics clearly, making reliability accessible to teams and stakeholders.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of the Arts, Mass Communications, Bachelor of the Arts, Mass Communications at University of North Carolina at Asheville