Brett Wolmarans
Staff Solutions Engineer at Kong Inc.
Westlake Village, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrett Wolmarans is a Staff Solutions Engineer with 11+ years of experience bridging deep systems engineering and product-facing roles across API, security, and cloud-native ecosystems. He combines hands-on kernel and DevOps expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the widely used sysdig project—with product leadership at F5 and Kong, helping translate technical value into closed deals and successful PoCs. Comfortable from COBOL-era operations to modern AI-assisted workflows, he crafts technical content, demos, and documentation that accelerate adoption and inform roadmap decisions. Brett has a track record of closing large enterprise opportunities, leading beta programs like NGINX One, and building high-scale test and demo environments. Based in Westlake Village, CA, he brings a pragmatic, curious approach—equal parts engineer, storyteller, and occasional turtle enthusiast—that helps teams turn complex requirements into practical, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)Fine Art. Incomplete., Fine Art. Incomplete. at WITS TechnikonFine Art. Incomplete., Fine Art. Incomplete. at Longwood University
Github Skills (11)
c1710
internals10
c1110
linux-kernel10
performance-optimization10
sys10
dockers9
docker9
debug8
debugging8
bash7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
draios/sysdig
Jan 2017 - Jul 2019
Linux system exploration and troubleshooting tool with first class support for containers
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:81 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Brett primarily contributed to the system exploration and troubleshooting tool, `sysdig`, by implementing features related to kernel and system-level functionality. Their work included adding support for Oracle Linux, updating CPU hotplug APIs for kernel 4.10 and 4.11, and optimizing the handling of close() events for improved performance. The user also improved the socket data handling and corrected issues with the eventmask and the program hash calculation, indicating strong involvement in system internals and performance improvements.
containerstroubleshootingseccomplinuxdocker
bwolmarans/kitty
Jan 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:5 PRs, 26 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 9 months
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