Brendan O'dowd
Senior Software Engineer - DevOps at Geminus
Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan O'dowd is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in DevOps with 11 years of experience designing, automating, and securing cloud-native infrastructure. He has led large-scale transformations—consolidating EKS clusters, re-architecting a 13-year-old AWS estate with Control Tower and Identity Center, and cutting cloud costs by 30% year-over-year—while administering company-wide CI/CD platforms for thousands of users. Brendan blends deep systems and networking knowledge from his hardware and networking roles with pragmatic software craftsmanship, authoring Terraform modules, Helm charts, and reusable pipeline templates that replaced brittle orchestration scripts. He’s driven migration efforts from on-prem GitLab to GitHub Enterprise and implemented autoscaling GitHub Actions runners on Kubernetes, demonstrating a strong operational focus on reliability and security. Outside work he contributes Java back-end code to the XMage open-source project, implementing complex game card logic—an example of his appetite for intricate domain modeling and long-term community contributions. Based in Worcester, MA, he also mentors junior engineers and emphasizes measurable, repeatable improvements in both tooling and team practices.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Worcester State University
Japanese, German, Spanish, English
Github Skills (10)
magicleap10
javas10
mt10
game-engine10
magick10
java10
card10
ai4
decks4
client-server3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
magefree/mage
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
XMage - Magic Another Game Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 9 PRs, 18 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Brendan appears to be focused on implementing game logic and card mechanics. Their commits involve adding card implementations for various Magic: The Gathering cards, including defining their abilities and interactions using Java. The user's contributions directly align with the project's goal of creating a game engine for Magic: The Gathering. These contributions span multiple sets of cards within the game.
gamedeckwindowsgamedevmagic
hanasu/iperf3-toolbox
Sep 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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