Brett Graves
Principal Software Engineer at Hy-Vee, Inc.
Kansas City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrett Graves is a Principal Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience building and operating full-stack systems across healthcare and retail, currently leading engineering efforts at Hy-Vee after a long tenure at Cerner/Oracle. He combines hands-on development (Java, Python/Django, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript) with deep infrastructure expertise in Splunk, Chef, Spinnaker and cloud deployments (AWS, OCI), often automating complex, multi-account rollouts. Known for attention to detail, Brett has moved from backend service design to architecting deployment automation and platform best practices, mentoring teams along the way. He has repeatedly bridged ops and development — running Splunk infrastructures, supporting end users, and shipping repeatable deployment pipelines — which makes him comfortable in both support-heavy and greenfield projects. Based in the Kansas City area, he brings a pragmatic, systems-minded approach and a track record of turning operational complexity into reliable, automated delivery.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Northwest Missouri State UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Iowa State University
Github Skills (55)
cookbook10
splunk10
infrastructure7
recipe7
passenger7
chef-infra6
scale6
discovery6
automation6
devops6
ansible6
ruby-build5
percona5
mysql-database5
logrotate4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cerner/cerner_splunk_ingredient
Jun 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
gravesb/cerner_splunk
Feb 2016 - Apr 2024
Cerner's Splunk Cookbook
Contributions:168 pushes, 95 branches in 8 years 2 months
cernercookbooksplunk
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