Brenden Matthews
Software Engineer at Ellipsis Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrenden Matthews is a software engineer with 16 years of experience building high-performance, cloud-native systems and developer-first tooling across Rust, C++, and Python. He’s authored two best-selling Rust books and maintains open-source projects that have attracted over 10,000 GitHub stars, reflecting both technical depth and community impact. His career spans startups and enterprises—designing low-latency data pipelines at Airbnb and Citadel, modernizing deployments and CI/CD at Braze to improve reliability by 40%, and leading infrastructure work at D2iQ and Ellipsis Labs. He co-founded multiple startups, shipping MVPs and customer-facing products while also teaching Rust to thousands and speaking at industry events. Notably, he contributed to core Mesos-era projects (Marathon, Chronos) and popular tooling around Kafka and load balancing, showing a long-standing focus on distributed systems and operational robustness. Based in New York, he blends entrepreneurial drive with hands-on engineering to turn complex infrastructure problems into reliable, production-ready solutions.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (47)
mesos10
docker10
c-language10
python10
imap10
marathon10
back-end-development10
job-scheduler10
configuration-management10
bots10
kafka10
containerization10
dockers10
java10
trading-bot10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
brndnmtthws/conky
Sep 2009 - Jan 2023
Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland, and other things, too
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 167 reviews, 666 commits in 13 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Brenden's commits primarily involve improving and fixing code related to the mail features within the Conky system monitor. These changes include allowing spaces in mail folder names, improving IMAP/POP3 code for handling connections, and addressing compiler errors. The user also worked on enhancing the handling of color for the code's background, particularly concerning the transparency feature, and contributed to improving and making the code more robust.
lualight-weightmonitorwaylandlight
mesosphere/marathon-lb
Nov 2015 - Jan 2017
Marathon-lb is a service discovery & load balancing tool for DC/OS
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 releases, 231 commits, 257 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Brenden made several enhancements to the Marathon-LB tool, focusing on improving its functionality and stability. Their contributions include adding health check support, improving default HAProxy templates, enabling HAProxy redispatch, and refactoring request error handling. Furthermore, the user updated documentation and refactored the codebase to use Python 3. The user also worked on implementing features such as path-based routing and made improvements to the build process and deployment configurations.
golangload-balancingdiscoveryservice-discoverymonitoring
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