Bret Barker
Engineering Director at Grafana Labs
Portland, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBret Barker is an engineering director with 13+ years leading teams and 25+ years building scalable consumer web and multiplayer game backends, currently directing engineering at Grafana Labs from Portland, Maine. He combines hands-on systems architecture, backend development, and devops practice, with deep experience shipping e-commerce and multiplayer game services that have supported thousands of concurrent users. Bret has a proven track record as a founder and senior technical leader—launching profitable startups, leading architecture at iWin, and driving product-focused engineering at Canonical—so he blends strategic leadership with the discipline of a seasoned individual contributor. He values robust, operable code that exceeds business goals and prefers remote or Portland-based roles, reflecting a pragmatic, craft-oriented approach to software delivery.
13 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering Computer Science, Electrical Engineering Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (78)
flask-restful10
snap10
simple-framework10
marshmallow10
monitoring9
rest9
api9
serve9
rest-api9
restful9
data-visualization8
login-system8
elasticsearch8
grafana8
slack-bot8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
noise/snapstore
Jun 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 6 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 2 months
minimalistsnap-packagesservenodejssnap
noise/stegocaps
Aug 2014 - Mar 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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