Brian Fletcher
Software Engineer at Backstage
Leixlip, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Fletcher is a software engineer with 14+ years building platform and infrastructure tooling, currently helping Roadie deliver Backstage as a SaaS on AWS EKS using Terraform, Helm and Flux. He has deep back-end experience (Ruby, GitHub integrations, auth) and has contributed to prominent open-source projects like Backstage and RubyGems, improving error handling, auth flows, and private repo downloads. At Workday and Dell he focused on IaaS/platform developer tooling, translating infrastructure challenges into reliable developer experiences. He maintains and authors many Backstage plugins and played a key role in a security insights plugin that integrated into Roadie’s Backstage stack. A holder of an MSc in Cloud Computing, he combines production Kubernetes/CI/CD expertise with a knack for pragmatic fixes that make APIs and developer tooling noticeably more debuggable. Colleagues know him for thoughtful logging, clearer error messages, and quietly improving developer velocity across large systems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Cloud Computing, MSc Cloud Computing at National College of IrelandHigher Certificate Science in IT Support, Higher Certificate Science in IT Support at Technological University Dublin
Github Skills (33)
apim10
scaffolding10
github-ci10
octokit10
url-encoding10
urn10
back-end-development10
testing10
authentication10
typescript10
user-authentication10
ui-design10
ruby10
uid10
api10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
RoadieHQ/roadie-backstage-plugins
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
All Backstage plugins created by Roadie.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:537 reviews, 344 commits, 388 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the development of a new security insights plugin, integrating it into the existing Backstage application. Their initial commits involved importing the plugin's code from a previous repository and removing unrelated files. Subsequent commits added tests for the plugin, integrated it with the application's UI components, and updated dependencies to work with newer versions. They also added a custom field for the scaffolder to fetch data from backstage apis.
backstagebackstage-pluginpluginroadie
backstage/backstage
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:251 reviews, 249 commits, 111 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the Backstage scaffolder backend, focusing on enhancing its functionality and error handling related to publishing repositories to GitHub. They improved logging for GitHub errors and added repository and user type information to error messages for better debugging. In addition, they fixed issues related to authentication, by creating a better interface to get the identity of a user. Also, they added the functionality to customize the commit message when creating the git repo.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
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