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 (96)
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prometheus-exporter10
javas10
automation10
junit10
rest-api10
haproxy10
concurrency10
integration-testing10
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
prometheus/blackbox_exporter
Sep 2015 - Oct 2020
Blackbox prober exporter
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 40 reviews, 104 commits in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily worked on refactoring and adding features to the blackbox_exporter. They moved the probe implementations into subdirectories and introduced features for HTTP and ICMP probes, including SSL validation, HTTP method configuration, and TCP connection checks. Their work expanded the functionality of the exporter by adding support for new probe types and enhancing existing ones.
exporterprometheus-exporterblackbox-exporterblackboxicmp
prometheus/cloudwatch_exporter
Jan 2015 - Jan 2021
Metrics exporter for Amazon AWS CloudWatch
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 releases, 13 reviews, 69 commits in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed by adding and modifying unit tests for the `cloudwatch_exporter`. These tests cover various aspects of the exporter's functionality, including retrieving metrics and handling dimensions. The code changes demonstrate the user's focus on ensuring the accuracy and reliability of the exporter's data collection. The tests also involve mocking the AWS CloudWatch client, showcasing their ability to isolate and verify specific components.
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