Brian Hartvigsen
Vice President Of Engineering at ChartHop
Boise, Idaho, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Hartvigsen is a seasoned engineering leader with 16 years building and operating large-scale infrastructure and DNS services, now serving as Vice President of Engineering at ChartHop. He has deep SRE and DevOps roots from OpenDNS/Cisco where his teams ran global DNS resolvers handling hundreds of billions of queries daily, and he’s moved from hands-on troubleshooting to strategic org leadership. Brian stays technical—contributing to well-known open-source projects like xbar, dnscontrol, ohmyzsh, and acme.sh—often fixing tricky edge cases, improving stability, and automating deployments. His background uniquely blends customer-facing roles (creating Technical Account Management at OpenDNS) with low-level systems problem solving, so he translates customer pain into durable engineering outcomes. Based in Boise, Idaho, he’s known for deliberately “breaking things, fixing things, and keeping them running,” which reflects a pragmatic, resilience-first approach to engineering.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA History Secondary Education, BA History Secondary Education at Boise State University
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Github Skills (56)
apim10
objective-c10
cloudflare10
acme-protocol10
website-development10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
python10
scripting10
google-calendar-api10
api-client10
plugin-development10
torrent10
plug10
bash10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
matryer/xbar-plugins
Mar 2016 - Apr 2020
Plugin repository for xbar (the BitBar reboot)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:282 commits, 747 PRs, 659 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on improving the functionality and stability of xbar plugins. The user made changes to various scripts by fixing shellcheck warnings, correcting image content types, and migrating metadata. Their contributions involved updating existing code for clarity and maintainability, particularly within the context of cryptocurrency and system monitoring tools. They also updated a plugin to use actual image links.
xbarpluginbitbarpluginsplugin-repository
insanum/gcalcli
Dec 2012 - Mar 2018
Google Calendar Command Line Interface
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:183 commits, 28 PRs, 57 pushes in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on maintaining and updating the `setup.py` file of the Google Calendar Command Line Interface. Their contributions include adjusting dependencies, managing the build process, and preparing the project for PyPI publishing. They updated the version number, fixed issues with RST markup generation, and made updates to accommodate release versions.
command-line-interfacecalendargoogle-calendarcli
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