Brent Eagles
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Summary
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RockstarBrent Eagles is a Principal Software Engineer based in St. John's, NL with 13+ years driving backend and cloud-native networking work at Red Hat and deep roots in middleware and high-performance distributed systems. He brings a rare combination of hands-on implementation—evidenced by significant OpenStack Neutron contributions such as SR-IOV VNIC enhancements, VLAN-aware VM data models, and test infrastructure refactors—and long-term architectural leadership from roles across middleware, telecom, and gaming companies. As founder of Eagles Technologies and a consultant to firms like Digium, he pairs entrepreneurial initiative with proven delivery in product and consulting contexts. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex networking and scalability requirements into maintainable code and database designs, and he often focuses on subtle backend improvements that yield outsized reliability and performance gains.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
openstack10
sqlalchemy10
python10
networking10
rest-api8
srv8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/neutron
Oct 2014 - Feb 2016
OpenStack Networking (Neutron). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Brent contributed significantly to the OpenStack Neutron project, focusing on core backend functionalities. Their work included refactoring policy initialization for the REST API, improving test infrastructure by refactoring the RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTE_MAP cleanup process, and introducing a new VNIC type for physical functions within the SR-IOV mechanism driver. Additionally, the user implemented data models and database operations related to vlan-aware-vms. This suggests a focus on enhancing networking capabilities within the OpenStack environment.
ospfopenflownetwork-automationnetworkingsdn
beagles/oddsnends
Sep 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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