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
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (54)
egress10
aws10
sql-script9
ora2pg9
aws-lambda9
api-gateway9
lambda9
jupyter-book9
aws-apigateway9
serverless8
python8
geometric8
serverless-framework8
oracle-database7
micro-framework7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bbuechler/class-presentation
Mar 2025 - Mar 2026
Contributions:3 reviews, 15 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year
ASFOpenSARlab/osl-utils
Feb 2025 - Jun 2026
Repo of shared resources (gh actions, dockerfiles, etc) for automating OSL deployments
Contributions:3 releases, 9 reviews, 8 PRs in 1 year 4 months
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