Brent Laster
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SeniorBrent Laster is a seasoned DevOps and developer tools leader with 13+ years of experience and a long career advancing release engineering, CI/CD, and cloud enablement across enterprise R&D organizations. As founder and trainer at Tech Skills Transformations and a longtime O’Reilly presenter and author, he translates complex tooling into hands-on training and practical guidance—authoring books on Jenkins and Git and creating flagship courses for Safari. At SAS he led multi-team efforts in containerization, SaaS delivery, security oversight, and operational tooling, while earlier roles (including IBM) grounded him in build engineering and developer workflows. Based in Cary, NC, he blends technical leadership with educator instincts, having delivered corporate training globally and helped hundreds of engineers adopt open-source practices. A detail that sets him apart: he pairs deep systems and build expertise with clear curriculum design, turning institutional knowledge into repeatable learning.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (23)
safari9
sas8
sas-visual-analytics7
canvasjs7
google-charts7
d3js6
startup6
sap-cap6
visualizations5
readiness5
administration5
python5
visualization5
javascript5
java4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
brentlaster/cdpjdocs
Mar 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:11 commits in 8 months
brentlaster/roarv2
Feb 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:8 commits in 3 years 9 months
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