Brendan Germain
Systems Reliability Engineer at NASDAQ OMX
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Germain is a Systems Reliability Engineer based in Boston with 12 years of hands-on experience keeping high-stakes, real-time trading and global networks resilient. He blends deep network and systems knowledge—MPLS/DWDM, Cisco infrastructure, Active Directory—with production-focused SRE practices at NASDAQ, troubleshooting core trading systems and orchestrating failover automation. Brendan’s background ranges from enterprise network operations at GlaxoSmithKline to large-scale desktop rollouts and server builds, so he’s comfortable translating business requirements into operational runbooks and secure, auditable implementations. An active contributor to open-source initramfs tooling, he improved rsyslog integration for dracut to stabilize logging in early-boot environments—an example of his attention to observability in edge system states. He pairs technical troubleshooting with clear documentation and stakeholder communication, making him effective in both crisis response and planned system evolution.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science, Information Systems and Technology, Bachelor of Science, Information Systems and Technology at Drexel University
Github Skills (16)
initramfs10
sh10
script10
shell10
rsyslog10
scripting10
boot9
sys9
admin9
system9
initrd9
administration9
system-administration9
administrator9
dockers3
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
dracutdevs/dracut
May 2016 - Sep 2016
dracut the event driven initramfs infrastructure
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 10 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Brendan's contributions primarily revolve around modifying and improving the rsyslog configuration and integration within the dracut initramfs environment. They addressed issues related to the correct installation and configuration of rsyslog components. The user also implemented changes to how the rsyslog service is started and stopped within the initramfs, addressing errors and preventing expansion issues. Finally, the user added support for reading the systemd journal by integrating 'imjournal.so'.
bootdracutinfrastructureinitramfsevent-driven
bcg62/homebrew-core
Mar 2017 - Jun 2019
:beers: Core formulae for the Homebrew package manager
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
beersformulaepackage-managercapistranohomebrew
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