Bret Comnes
Senior Software Engineer at Socket
Arcata, California, United States
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Top SchoolBret Comnes is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building distributed systems, developer tooling, and full‑stack applications from startup proof-of-concepts to production platforms. Currently at Socket, he built a GitHub App that materially drove sales and platform adoption through a Series A, and his work spans BI, data pipelines, and CI/CD improvements. Past roles at Netlify and Rad. highlight deep expertise in build infrastructure, cloud-native DevOps (Terraform, Kubernetes), peer-to-peer networks, and fast turnarounds on NFT minting/auction platforms. He is an active open-source contributor—improving projects like Netlify CLI and the Rainbow Ethereum wallet—and has a knack for pragmatic refactors (TypeScript conversions, token-list automation) that speed builds and reduce operational friction. Based in Arcata, CA, Bret pairs a physics background with low-level systems work (native Node modules, WebAssembly) and a playful side visible in community projects like cool-ascii-faces.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Physics, BS Physics at Humboldt State UniversityMaster’s Degree Applied Physics, Master’s Degree Applied Physics at Portland State University
English
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Github Skills (47)
javascript10
docker10
strings10
react-native10
netlify10
netlify-cli10
text-manipulation10
command-line-interface10
typescript10
bash10
ui-design10
dockers10
cicd10
uid10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
netlify/netlify-identity-widget
Sep 2017 - Feb 2019
A zero config, framework free Netlify Identity widget
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:31 releases, 168 commits, 67 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Bret primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the Netlify Identity Widget. Their contributions include fixing viewport warnings for Safari, correcting listing errors, and ensuring Prettier formatting. They also made changes to the modal component, specifically addressing development settings and the header display.
widgetzeronetlify-identityconfigjamstack
netlify/build-image
Nov 2018 - May 2019
This is the build image used for running automated builds
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:37 releases, 203 commits, 105 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Bret primarily focused on modifying and maintaining the build image used for automated builds. Their work involved filtering processes, updating Ruby versions, bumping test build versions, and updating default versions in scripts. They also added and linked a custom version of "zip-it-and-ship-it", improving the overall build and deployment process. Moreover, they added a function to prep functions with ZISI.
buildsautomated-buildsdockerimage-build
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