Brent Graveland
Sr Software Engineer at Timescale
Ardrossan, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Graveland is a senior software engineer with 23 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native systems, currently focusing on DevOps, automation, and Go at Timescale. He blends deep infrastructure expertise—from Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault, and private cloud operations to PostgreSQL and networking—with a track record of architecting production GIS path-planning and backend services. A pragmatic leader and mentor, Brent has led small engineering teams to deliver resilient data pipelines and REST APIs while designing automation that reduces operational toil. His background spans Oracle DBA work, security research at Symantec, and low-level systems programming, giving him unusual breadth across databases, virtualization, and security. Known for rapid self-learning and practical problem solving, he often surfaces efficiencies by automating repetitive workflows and building reusable tooling.
22 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of Lethbridge
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (118)
lz410
timeseries-database10
postgresql10
archiving10
recovery10
docker-desktop10
backup10
postgresql-extension10
pgbackrest10
wal10
financial-analysis10
sql10
promscale10
multi-process10
checksum10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
timescale/linkerd-await
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
A program that blocks on linkerd readiness
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
graveland/yaml
Apr 2024 - Apr 2024
A better way to marshal and unmarshal YAML in Golang
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 tag in 1 day
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