Brent Velthoen
Principal Engineer at Ridgeline
Danville, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Velthoen is a Principal Engineer and seasoned software architect with over two decades of experience building scalable, data-driven systems for startups and enterprise platforms. A founding engineer at multiple ventures and an early employee at Workday, he excels at turning complex domain requirements into pragmatic microservice architectures, real-time stream processing, and user-focused products. His recent work blends ML pipelines, time-series analytics, and IoT telematics—designing everything from battery fleet management backends to CDC-driven financial services—demonstrating deep fluency across cloud, data, and embedded integrations. Known for shipping end-to-end solutions, he pairs hands-on implementation (from FastAPI and Kafka to React and TimescaleDB) with architectural leadership and continuous delivery practices. Based in Danville, CA, he brings an analytic-philosophy background to problem framing, often surfacing elegant abstractions that simplify long-lived operational complexity.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Davidson CollegeBA Analytic Philosophy, BA Analytic Philosophy at Westmont College
Github Skills (5)
redux7
exploratory7
react6
javascript5
game-development4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bvelt/mastermind
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
Exploratory project to build mastermind game using variety of frameworks
Contributions:1 release, 33 commits, 3 PRs in 2 months
gameexploratorymastermind-gamegamedevmastermind
bvelt/nginx-log-exporter
Feb 2020 - Apr 2021
A Nginx log exporter for prometheus metrics.
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 year 1 month
nginxexporterprometheus-exporternginx-logprometheus-metrics
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