Brian Carey
Senior Software Engineer at Chainguard
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
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Top SchoolBrian Carey is a Senior Software Engineer and DevOps specialist with nine years’ experience modernizing CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and microservices across enterprises like Red Hat, Mastercard and Chainguard. He combines deep hands-on skills in Python, Linux and Kubernetes (CKA) with practical security stewardship—having served as a Security Champion and led PCI certification and vulnerability remediation efforts. Brian has a track record of speeding delivery and improving reliability, from rebuilding CI platforms used by 50+ teams to automating releases and Kubernetes migrations. His open-source contributions include stabilizing CI for the prominent kubevirt project by quarantining flaky tests and tuning performance automation, showing attention to test hygiene that keeps large merge queues healthy. With an MSc in Software Design and Development and dual cloud certifications (CKA, COA), he pairs academic rigor with production-focused engineering. Based in Dublin, he focuses on pragmatic automation that reduces toil while improving observability and release safety.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Software Design and Development, Master of Science (MSc) Software Design and Development at University of GalwayRice College
French, English
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Github Skills (8)
kubernetes10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
test-automation10
testing10
gcp8
performance-testing7
prometheus7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kubevirt/kubevirt
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:525 reviews, 15 commits, 127 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to improving the stability and reliability of the Kubevirt project by identifying and addressing flaky tests within the continuous integration (CI) pipelines. They quarantined tests that exhibited high failure rates, impacting the merge queue. Additionally, the user removed tests from quarantine after confirming they were stable and also updated the performance automation to point to a new Prometheus service and modified other tests. This demonstrates a focus on maintaining a stable and efficient testing environment for the project.
apivmsmachineslibvirtruntime
brianmcarey/ci-health
Jan 2022 - Jan 2024
Metrics about CI performance in repositories using Prow
Contributions:60 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
repositoriesgocdprowperformanceprometheus
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