Summary
Bret Mullinix is a Senior Consultant with nearly two decades of experience designing and building enterprise applications, now focused on cloud-native microservices using Spring Boot, Kafka/REST, and containerized CI/CD workflows. He blends a deep background in MVVM/MVC GUI and relational-database systems with hands-on DevOps practice—running Jenkins pipelines on Kubernetes, pushing private Docker images, and automating tests from unit to Selenium Grid UI validation. At Red Hat and prior defense- and government-focused roles he’s delivered resilient, independently deployable services that own their datasources and integrate via message-oriented middleware. In the last couple of years Bret has deliberately broadened into infrastructure, deploying bare-metal OpenStack and Kubernetes clusters and gaining strong Linux networking and sysadmin skills. His profile reflects a pragmatic engineer who moves fluidly between application architecture and the operational plumbing that makes production-scale systems reliable.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Biology at Virgina Commonwealth University (VCU)
No Degree -- Transferred University Studies, No Degree -- Transferred University Studies at Virginia Tech
Master of Science (MS) Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Computer Software Engineering at George Mason University