Brian Bockelman
Creative Director
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Bockelman is a creative director and former copywriter based in Kansas City with 18 years of experience translating technical complexity into clear, engaging communication and product-focused solutions. At VML he progressed from intern to Creative Director, leading campaigns for high-profile clients like Wendy’s while maintaining a hands-on approach to craft and strategy. Beyond advertising, Brian is an active open-source contributor with deep back-end and DevOps chops—his work touches projects such as Rucio, XRootD, Apptainer, and the Open Science Grid—showing expertise in security, authentication, and systems-level integrations. He blends storytelling and systems thinking, able to design both a brand narrative and the technical plumbing that supports data-driven products. Raised in Dubuque and now rooted in KC, he runs a portfolio at poppinbockles.com that reflects his knack for playful, precise writing built on a foundation of engineering-minded problem solving.
18 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Marketing, Bachelor's degree Marketing at University of Iowa
Github Skills (63)
security-hardening10
c-language10
website-development10
system-programming10
python10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
authentication10
linux10
build-system10
distributed-systems10
user-authentication10
cmake10
data-management10
containerization10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
xrootd/xrootd
Mar 2011 - Jan 2023
XRootD official repository https://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=XRootD
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:167 reviews, 377 commits, 207 PRs in 12 years
Contributions summary:Brian's contributions focused on enhancing the XRootD codebase, primarily concerning build portability, and implementing a throttle manager within the server's buffer management system. The code changes involved modifying build scripts and specification files for Fedora packaging guidelines and introducing a new component, the throttle manager, which was integrated with the server's core functionalities. These changes reflect an effort to improve the server's performance and control resource usage through the implementation of the throttle manager.
tarballxrootdstorageaixdistributed-file-system
iris-hep/iris-hep.github.io
Sep 2018 - Dec 2022
Institute for Research and Innovation in Software for High Energy Physics
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 57 commits, 34 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the front-end of the website. They fixed the layout of focus areas, allowing projects and presentations to belong to multiple areas. Additionally, the user added activities and events pages to the navbar for improved site navigation, while also fixing font issues related to HTTPS rendering. They also made logos links.
physicssnl-applicationshigh-energy-physicshigh-energyinnovation
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