Brendan Gray
Principal Software Engineer at Optalitix
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Gray is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and architecting cloud-native systems, currently leading platform work at Optalitix. He combines a PhD-level engineering background in aeronautics with hands-on expertise across Python, TypeScript, C#, Rust and MATLAB to deliver automated, production-grade solutions from decision engines to generative AI platforms. Brendan has led cross-functional teams and Centres of Excellence, driving CI/CD, Kubernetes deployments and ISO-aligned architecture reviews for global SaaS and fintech customers. He’s as comfortable writing backend FastAPI services and PostgreSQL schemas as he is specifying security, reliability and cost trade-offs for large-scale IoT platforms. Outside of work he’s an avid speedcuber and World Cube Association delegate who brings the same obsession for elegant, repeatable processes to tooling and automation. Based in Gauteng, South Africa, he mentors engineers while quietly keeping side projects and small web experiments in a GitHub repo.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
National Senior Certificate, National Senior Certificate at Fourways High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Aeronautical Engineering - Compressible Gas Dynamics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Aeronautical Engineering - Compressible Gas Dynamics at University of the Witwatersrand
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (19)
cubing10
displays7
react7
vscode6
javascript6
csharp5
plasmoid5
kde-plasma4
dotnet4
ranking3
cube3
visual-studio-code3
web-application3
css3
data-lake2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AlphaSheep/mbld-ranks
Feb 2024 - Jan 2026
An alternative ranking system for Rubik's cube multiple blindfolded solves
Contributions:1 PR, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
Sylvermyst-Technologies/QuickCoords
Mar 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:45 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 2 years 1 month
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