Brett Mcbride
Developer Engineer at Deakin University
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBrett Mcbride is a senior backend developer and systems architect with 12+ years designing and operating high-traffic, user-facing applications and large ERP systems in the Australian university sector. He specializes in Oracle/PostgreSQL, PHP, containerisation and end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, and has led technical design and continuous deployment for critical student portal infrastructure. An active CNCF maintainer, Brett contributes to OpenTelemetry PHP—improving exporters, batch processing, and observability for real-world microservices—and has upgraded PHP services to asynchronous runtimes for better performance. His open-source work spans protocol buffers, Zend Framework caching, and Mattermost tooling, reflecting a focus on reliability, interoperability and maintainability. Based in Geelong, he pairs deep database and backend expertise with practical mentoring and cross-team coordination on global volunteer projects.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
St Helena Secondary CollegeBachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at La Trobe University
Github Skills (47)
unit-testing10
json10
caching10
javascript10
protocol-buffers10
microservices-application10
zend-framework10
data-serialization10
exporter10
redux10
webpack10
serialization10
mattermost10
php10
webpacker10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-php
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
The OpenTelemetry PHP Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 634 reviews, 85 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Brett made significant contributions to the OpenTelemetry PHP library, focusing on improving the functionality and usability of the exporter and span processor components. They implemented features for batch processing, including adhering to the specification for shutdown and forceFlush. The user also addressed bugs within the code by providing fixes for a batch processor and a bug fix for the span interface, as well as improvements to documentation. Furthermore, the user enhanced the library's configurability by incorporating environment variable configurations.
opentelemetry-phpphptracingloggingotel
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
This repository contains the OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop, a microservice-based distributed system intended to illustrate the implementation of OpenTelemetry in a near real-world environment.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 4 commits, 10 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Brett primarily focused on enhancing the PHP-based quote service within the OpenTelemetry demo application. Their contributions include integrating OpenTelemetry instrumentation with PHP, enabling metrics and logs, and refactoring the application to utilize an asynchronous PHP runtime. They also addressed configuration issues related to metrics exporting and upgraded dependencies, including PHP's release candidate. These changes improved the observability and performance of the quote service, key components of the demo application.
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