Brian Brazil
Founder at Robust Perception
Ireland
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Brian Brazil is a founder and seasoned reliability engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating monitoring systems and observability tooling from Ireland. He founded Robust Perception to help organizations get deeper insights into applications and infrastructure, drawing on prior SRE leadership at Google and hands-on engineering at Boxever. A prolific Prometheus contributor, Brian has driven core improvements across exporters, client libraries, Alertmanager, Pushgateway and Prometheus itself—often focusing on robustness, parsing, templating and modular exporter architectures. His work spans back-end development, DevOps and technical writing, blending code changes with documentation and usability improvements that make monitoring systems more reliable and approachable. Expect pragmatic design choices informed by production-scale incident experience and a knack for turning messy telemetry into actionable metrics.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA(Mod), Computer Science, BA(Mod), Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin
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Github Skills (95)
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instrumentation10
prometheus-exporter10
javas10
automation10
junit10
rest-api10
haproxy10
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Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
prometheus/docs
Dec 2014 - Jan 2021
Prometheus documentation: content and static site generator
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:27 reviews, 247 commits, 779 PRs in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the Prometheus documentation. Their work involved adding new documentation, including best practices, FAQs, and blog post references. They also updated existing documentation, improved the glossary, and made modifications to the front page, and CSS files to improve the look and feel of the site, including adding company logos and responsive design.
prometheusstatic-site-generatorprometheus-documentation
prometheus/client_python
Jul 2015 - Nov 2021
Prometheus instrumentation library for Python applications
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 18 reviews, 146 commits in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the Prometheus client library for Python applications. Their work involved adding decorators and context managers for easier use cases, such as timing code blocks and tracking exceptions. They also made changes to the internal structure of the library, including unifying decorators and context managers, refactoring code, and modifying the testing setup to support Python 3. Furthermore, the user introduced support for textfile collectors and expanded the documentation.
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