Brent Lavelle
Software Engineer at Firefly Aerospace
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBrent Lavelle is a pragmatic software engineer with 15 years of deep experience in test automation, infrastructure, and observability, now working at Firefly Aerospace from Austin. He has led build and CI migrations at scale (GitLab to GitHub Actions) and built metrics-driven ELK scorecards that turned tribal knowledge into measurable release criteria. Comfortable across Python, Ruby, Java and Perl, Brent’s career spans mobile Appium testing to large-scale Elasticsearch performance validation and 24/7 live-ops support. He’s repeatedly translated operational needs into reusable test frameworks and tooling—often moving QA practices from ad hoc to automated, evidence-based processes. A former co-founder and early compiler tester, he brings both startup grit and enterprise rigor to distributed systems and test automation.
15 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University at Buffalo
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Github Skills (10)
watir8
ios6
appium6
ruby6
sketchup4
selenium-webdriver3
selenium3
capybara2
slack2
webdriver1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
brentlavelle/adafruit_radiator
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:29 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
brentlavelle/watir_koans
Feb 2011 - Oct 2021
A set of Koans to teach the Ruby library Watir
Contributions:2 reviews, 10 commits, 1 PR in 10 years 9 months
rubykoansteachwatirruby-library
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