Brendan O'Leary is a Developer Relations Engineer with a decade of experience building developer communities and product experiences at the intersection of AI, DevOps, and open source. He currently focuses on AI-assisted developer tooling through an open-source VS Code extension at Kilo Code, having previously led developer relations and community initiatives at Prefect, ProjectDiscovery, and GitLab. As a founder and CEO of a boutique web app studio, he brings hands-on product and engineering experience alongside strategic community building for micro-SaaS products. Brendan combines enterprise delivery background—driving CI/CD and release management for government and Fortune 100 programs—with public-facing advocacy, technical speaking, and governance experience from a CNCF board seat. Outside work he’s a 4x dad, a detail that informs his pragmatic, user-centered approach to tooling and developer experience.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Business Administration Information Systems, BS Business Administration Information Systems at University of Maryland
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