Brett Tofel
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Strafford, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolBrett Tofel is a senior software engineer with 11 years of professional experience building cloud-native, data-driven systems using Java, Scala, Go and Kubernetes. Currently the tech lead on Red Hat’s Metering Operator, he implemented a Presto-to-Prometheus connector and has deep hands-on experience with Operators, Helm, Hadoop and HDFS for cluster metrics and big-data queries. His background spans real-time telecom systems (RabbitMQ, Akka, ASR integrations) and machine learning research for computer vision and robotic navigation, demonstrating an ability to move algorithms into production. Brett combines systems-level engineering with practical DevOps skills—Dockerizing legacy stacks and advancing CI/CD pipelines—and has a record of leading cross-disciplinary teams. Based in Strafford, Vermont, he pairs academic rigor from Georgia Tech with entrepreneurial operations experience in renewable energy and founding roles.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.5, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.5 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBS Eng, Manufacturing Engineering, BS Eng, Manufacturing Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English, German, Russian, French
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Github Skills (200)
minecraft10
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databases10
hadoop10
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olap10
runc10
k8s10
operator10
podman10
scaffolding10
trino10
sql-query10
commons10
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bentito/hadoop
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
Mirror of Apache Hadoop
Contributions:61 pushes, 25 branches in 1 year 4 months
apachebig-datahadoopjavaapache-hadoop
bentito/release
Mar 2020 - Aug 2023
Release tooling for OpenShift Origin
Contributions:45 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 5 months
kubernetesopenshift-originopenshifttooling
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