Brian Buechler
Principal Engineer at Alaska Satellite Facility
Boise, Idaho, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Buechler is a Principal Engineer with 25+ years in engineering large-scale satellite and geospatial data systems, and over a decade focused on Python, cloud-native architectures, and automation. He architects and operates hybrid AWS/on-prem solutions—most notably an AWS Lambda-based distribution system used across NASA’s Earthdata Cloud—and bridges high-performance HPC (Slurm) with serverless patterns to balance cost and throughput. Known for digging into messy, poorly documented problems, he combines observability, performance tuning, and dataset fusion expertise to deliver durable, performant, and scalable pipelines. A pragmatic mentor and automation evangelist, he champions CI/CD, container orchestration, and monitoring (CloudWatch/OpenSearch) while still admitting a blind spot for expansive Python test suites. Based in Boise, he pairs technical depth with real-world ops experience and an appetite for continuous learning—currently tackling French on Duolingo between skiing and gardening outings.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Alaska Fairbanks
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Github Skills (67)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bbuechler/class-presentation
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 reviews, 14 PRs, 37 pushes in 3 days
asfadmin/MapReadyDocker
May 2024 - May 2024
Dockerized ASF MapReady
Contributions:2 releases, 5 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 day
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