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 (16)
cubing10
react7
javascript7
displays7
plasmoid6
css4
cube4
kde-plasma4
ranking3
desktop2
web-application2
vpn2
linux2
dialog2
popup1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Sylvermyst-Technologies/QuickCoords
Mar 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:45 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 2 years 1 month
AlphaSheep/Comp-Kinch
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
A website that displays KinchRank-like ranking for WCA competitions
Contributions:46 commits, 30 PRs, 40 pushes in 14 days
reactdisplayscssjavascriptranking
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