Brendan Doyle
Staff Software Engineer at Qualtrics
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Doyle is a Staff Software Engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and developer-facing infrastructure at Qualtrics. He specializes in platform engineering, Infrastructure-as-Code, and migrating legacy FaaS systems into AWS while keeping solutions simple, maintainable, and cost-effective. Brendan leads work to codify repeatable best practices and is driving adoption of agentic coding tools to accelerate the software delivery lifecycle. His background in serverless research and contributions to Apache OpenWhisk—where he improved invoker behavior and multi-partition Kafka support—underscore deep hands-on expertise in distributed systems and orchestration. He pairs an academic foundation from Georgetown with practical production experience, quietly favoring pragmatic trade-offs that increase engineering velocity across large organizations.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgetown University
Github Skills (13)
javas10
functions-as-a-service10
kafka10
serverless-architectures10
openwhisk10
java10
scala10
dockers9
zookeeper9
docker9
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
cloud-computing7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
apache/openwhisk
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
Apache OpenWhisk is an open source serverless cloud platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:203 reviews, 25 commits, 129 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Brendan primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Apache OpenWhisk serverless platform. They focused on enhancing the container proxy by adding configuration options for activation error logging. The user also modified the invoker to handle unique names and assign invoker IDs via Zookeeper, along with adding support for enabling/disabling invoker support. Furthermore, they added support for multi partition kafka topics.
serverless-cloudfunctionsserverlessapachedocker
qualtrics/openwhisk
Nov 2020 - Jan 2025
Apache OpenWhisk is an open source serverless cloud platform
Contributions:5 reviews, 2 PRs, 158 pushes in 4 years 2 months
serverless-cloudserverlessapacheapache-openwhiskcloud
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