Brett Rann
Senior Developer at Hudson RPO
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBrett Rann is a Senior Developer based in Melbourne with 14 years of experience delivering scalable Linux-first web applications and platform services. He specializes in operating Kafka at scale and currently focuses on AWS DevOps, Confluent Kafka, Kubernetes operators and self-service wrapped AWS using k8s patterns. Brett champions twelve-factor, containerisation, CI/CD and pragmatic practices that reduce technical debt while enabling teams to own products from conception through production. His background spans hands-on DevOps roles at Zendesk and platform delivery at Hudson RPO, with experience building serverless data pipelines and developer-facing tooling. Colleagues know him for blending reliability engineering with developer support—treating operational excellence as a product feature. He’s driven by learning new technologies and applying them practically to create resilient, observable systems.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology, Bachelor of Information Technology at Flinders University
Github Skills (64)
kafka10
background-service10
lag10
java9
resque9
scala9
background-worker9
ruby9
self-healing9
rails9
asynchronous-tasks9
queue9
job-queue9
kafka-cluster9
apache-kafka9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
brettrann/rails4inaction-ticketee
Jun 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:67 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
brettrann/national_science_foundation_degree_stats
Mar 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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