Brian Ketelsen
Linux Community Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Land O' Lakes, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Ketelsen is a seasoned Linux and cloud-native engineering leader with 17 years of experience building developer ecosystems and production-ready infrastructure. Currently Microsoft’s Linux Community Engineering Manager and co-founder of Gopher Academy (organizer of GopherCon), he blends technical leadership with community building around Go, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud. He’s a hands-on contributor to notable open-source projects—adding remote config support to Viper, refining error handling in the Goa framework, and contributing front-end and infrastructure fixes for GopherAcademy’s site. His background spans developer advocacy at AWS and Microsoft, executive roles in startups and enterprise IT, and practical systems work from Sybase DBAs to cloud platform design. Based in Florida, he pairs deep systems knowledge with public-facing education and training, often translating complex distributed systems into approachable learning. An unexpected thread through his career is repeatedly moving between building internal, secure data platforms and fostering open developer communities, showing an unusual mix of product, ops, and outreach expertise.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Information Management Systems, Information Management Systems at Harvard UniversityBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Information Technology at American InterContinental University
French, German
Github Skills (32)
dependency-management10
go-modules10
back-end-development10
css10
configuration-management10
etcd10
consul10
go10
api10
html10
golang10
error-handling10
logging10
blazor-webassembly10
webassembly10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
gopheracademy/gopheracademy-web
Sep 2014 - Sep 2020
Public Website for blog.GopherAcademy.com
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:303 commits, 114 PRs, 186 pushes in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Brian's contributions primarily focused on updating the website's frontend and layout. They made changes to the header, footer, and index files, integrating new content and adjusting the site's design. Additionally, the user updated the website's CSS to include styling for the GopherCon banner and performed minor code fixes and path updates. These commits demonstrate involvement across multiple aspects of the website's presentation and structure.
gomods/athens
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
A Go module datastore and proxy
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 39 PRs, 49 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on refactoring and updating import paths within the `athens` project. They modified multiple files, primarily within the `actions` and `pkg/storage` directories, to reflect changes in the project's import structure. These changes appear to be related to a larger refactor to improve the project's organization. Furthermore, the user updated dependencies and added support for CORS and CSRF, enhancing the project's security and cross-origin resource sharing capabilities.
go-modulesproxygolangdependenciespackage-control
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