Brendan Dixon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrendan Dixon is a seasoned software leader and architect with 15+ years delivering large-scale, resilient systems across cloud, consumer, and health-tech domains from Seattle. He has repeatedly turned underperforming teams into high-velocity organizations at AWS and Microsoft, shipping major SDKs and core Azure Linux functionality while bridging product strategy and deep technical design. Brendan’s hands-on background spans languages from C/C++ and Objective-C to Ruby, Python, and JavaScript, and includes low-level OS work, cloud agent DevOps, and web-scale site engineering. He led critical efforts such as Azure Linux Agent improvements and self-update features and drove AWS engagement with developer ecosystems like GitHub. Equally comfortable writing tens of thousands of lines of C++ for distributed simulation or guiding cross-functional product decisions, he combines pragmatic engineering with a knack for translating business needs into scalable architectures.
15 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (7)
debug10
azure10
microsoft-azure10
python10
devops9
system-administration8
testing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/WALinuxAgent
May 2016 - Nov 2017
Microsoft Azure Linux Guest Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:15 releases, 183 commits, 223 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Brendan primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements to the Azure Linux Agent, as evidenced by commit messages such as "Fix #297 and signal forwarding recursion". These changes involved modifying core files related to agent update functionality, configuration, and signal handling. The user also worked on implementing the agent self-update feature and improving logging. These contributions are consistent with someone working on both backend development and the related operational aspects of the agent.
agentguest-agentlinuxmicrosoft-azureazure
brendandixon/autorest
Jun 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:3 PRs, 99 pushes, 8 branches in 9 months
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