Brendan Ribera
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Axon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Ribera is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Seattle with 17 years of hands-on experience building products across every application tier at early-stage companies. He combines pragmatic, efficient engineering with an entrepreneur’s instinct—co-founding PaperKarma and helping prototype multiple startups at Madrona Venture Labs, several of which were acquired. A polyglot coder comfortable in Ruby, Go, Clojure, Objective-C, Haskell and more, he ships production systems, mobile apps, backends, and devops tooling. Brendan has contributed to influential open-source tooling like Leiningen, improving upgrade and test workflows to avoid compatibility pitfalls for the Clojure ecosystem. He excels at pairing real problems with elegant solutions and moving quickly from prototypes to scalable production. Collected experience across startups and acquisitions gives him a rare mix of product sense, execution speed, and deep technical breadth.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Informatics Applied Math, Bachelor of Science (BS) Informatics Applied Math at University of Washington
Github Skills (6)
clojure10
build-tools10
functional-programming10
leiningen10
clojure-cli10
testing10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
technomancy/leiningen
Feb 2010 - Aug 2010
Moved to Codeberg; this is a temporary convenience mirror
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Brendan focused on enhancing the core functionality of the Leiningen build tool, specifically related to testing and upgrades. They implemented an upgrade task, refined the upgrade process, and prevented compatibility issues with Clojure 1.0. Furthermore, the user improved the test task by adding features and preventing conflicts. They also updated a docstring for the `clean` function.
convenience
abscondment/dotfiles
Dec 2013 - Apr 2021
Contributions:218 commits, 85 pushes in 7 years 5 months
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