Brett Neese
Founder at HBK Engineering, LLC
Tempe, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolBrett Neese is a founder and software engineer with 14 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, DevOps workflows, and automation to help teams ship and scale reliably. He has led the design and implementation of AWS environments and CI/CD pipelines that transformed monolithic on-prem systems into resilient microservice architectures, materially improving uptime and deployment frequency. As founder of Neon Labs and a lead DevOps engineer at a major utility engineering firm, he combines hands-on scripting and Terraform work with product-minded systems design. Brett contributes to open-source projects like ODK Aggregate, where he improved Docker entrypoint configurability and security, and he brings an international perspective from study-abroad programs that informs his collaborative approach. He’s actively seeking remote opportunities and pairs a background in liberal arts and philosophy with practical engineering to simplify complex technical problems.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Philosophy + Global Asian Studies, Bachelor’s Degree, Philosophy + Global Asian Studies at DePaul UniversityAA, Undecided, AA, Undecided at Indian Hills Community CollegeStudy Abroad - Northern Europe, Study Abroad - Northern Europe at Semester at SeaGeneral Eductation, Liberal Arts, General Eductation, Liberal Arts at Pleasant Valley High SchoolBachelor's of Liberal Studies, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Bachelor's of Liberal Studies, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at Iowa State UniversityStudy Abroad - Hong Kong, Study Abroad - Hong Kong at Hong Kong Baptist University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
47reputation
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Github Skills (19)
docker10
scripting10
configuration-management10
bash10
dockers10
script10
sh10
shell10
tomcat8
dwolla6
csv6
nodejs6
meteor6
regex6
ruby6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
getodk/aggregate
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
ODK Aggregate is a Java server that stores, analyzes, and presents survey data collected using ODK Collect. Contribute and make the world a better place! ✨🗄✨
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Brett's contributions center around configuring and modifying the Docker entrypoint script for the ODK Aggregate server. They refactored the script to enable bind mounting of configuration files and override settings using environment variables. Key changes include the ability to pass configuration files for `jdbc.properties`, `security.properties`, `odk-settings.xml`, and `server.xml`, along with improvements for security like hiding the password in logs. The modifications also included changing linking to copying configuration files and removing an exit command.
a-better-worldplacecollectjava-serveranalyzes
HBKEngineering/convict-provider-awsSsm
Feb 2021 - Apr 2023
Get secrets from AWS SSM using `node-convict.`
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 2 months
ssmsecurityaws-ssmsecretsconvict
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