Brett Giles
Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrett Giles is a Principal Engineer based in Seattle with 14 years of recent industry experience and a deep background spanning software development, team leadership, and project management. He combines hands-on expertise in Ruby on Rails, TDD (RSpec/Cucumber), and JavaScript with experience leading AWS engineering teams across CodeCommit and Alexa communications. Brett holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science with research in reversible computation, reflecting a strong theoretical foundation that informs his practical architecture and tooling decisions. He has repeatedly built engineering processes—introducing CI, linters, and Kanban/sprint practices—and has led successful outsourcing and transition programs at enterprise scale. Known for mentoring engineers and balancing product delivery with code quality, he moves comfortably between low-level research (quantum/functional languages) and shipping customer-facing Rails applications. An unusual blend of academic depth and decades of hands-on ops/dev leadership makes him adept at solving both algorithmic and organizational challenges.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
M. Sc., Mathematics, M. Sc., Mathematics at University of AlbertaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of Calgary
English, French
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Github Skills (28)
sidekiq8
git8
background-processing7
qunit7
test-suite6
quantum-programming-language6
jruby6
fork6
coverage6
ruby6
teaspoon6
browserstack6
jasmine5
rails4
http4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
drogar/lqpl
Mar 2012 - Aug 2020
Linear Quantum Programming Language
Contributions:410 commits, 6 PRs, 44 pushes in 8 years 7 months
quantum-programming-language
drogar/parser
Apr 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch, 4 tags in 1 year 1 month
rubyparser
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