Brian Hartsock
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Hartsock is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling data, cloud, and visualization platforms from startup to enterprise. He currently leads Atlassian’s Analytics and Visualization Platform, bringing together Chartio’s product DNA to democratize data for teams across the company. His background spans hands-on backend work and large-scale operations—at Tilt and Rackspace he improved uptime, automated infrastructure, and scaled systems to handle sudden traffic surges. He pairs product-focused engineering leadership with a pragmatic emphasis on CI/CD, testing, and observability, and has taught JavaScript to university students, reflecting a commitment to mentorship. An active contributor to cloud tooling in open source, he has fixed tests and hardened Rackspace-related components in the popular fog Ruby library, underscoring attention to reliability in distributed systems. Based in Blacksburg, VA, he combines startup velocity with enterprise rigor to turn data complexity into usable, trustworthy analytics.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, Computer Engineering, BS Computer Science, Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
ruby10
testing10
cloud-services9
nunit6
connection-string6
google-closure-library6
google-closure-compiler6
aws-cloudformation6
amazon-web-services6
mysql6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
fog/fog
Nov 2011 - Oct 2013
The Ruby cloud services library.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:68 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily worked on fixing tests related to Rackspace DNS requests and callbacks. The code changes involved adjusting test cases to handle unique domain names and adapting to changes in the callback mechanism. The contributions also included bug fixes and test enhancements within the Rackspace load balancer components. The user demonstrates a good understanding of testing and cloud services.
cloud-servicesruby
brianhartsock/ansible-role-mdadm
Nov 2019 - Jun 2026
Ansible role for managing mdadm arrays.
Contributions:5 releases, 61 PRs, 73 pushes in 6 years 8 months
ansiblearraysansible-rolerolemdadm
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