Brian Mcqueen
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Mcqueen is a seasoned DevOps engineer with seven years of experience building sane, automated infrastructure for production systems, predating the popularization of the term. Based in Sunnyvale, he focuses on automation, CI/CD, deployment processes, monitoring and analytics, favoring tools like Ansible, Docker, and Sensu while adopting newer service-discovery primitives such as consul/etcd. He has a strong systems-programming background shown by contributions to high-profile open-source projects like fluent-bit and the goavro library, where he implemented robust Avro support and efficient encoding/decoding for Kafka integrations. Brian also improved Jenkins pipeline testing for Kubernetes agents, bridging developer workflows and runtime orchestration. With an M.S. in Atmospheric Physics and a B.S. in Physics, he brings a quantitative, investigative approach to engineering problems and builds custom tooling when off-the-shelf solutions fall short.
7 years of coding experience
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoM. S., Atmospheric Physics, M. S., Atmospheric Physics at University of Nevada, Reno
Github Skills (36)
json10
avro10
kubernetes10
msgpack10
kafka10
data-serialization10
c1110
serialization10
c1710
go10
pipe10
pipeline10
kubernetes-pods10
c-libraries10
golang10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/JenkinsPipelineUnit
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Framework for unit testing Jenkins pipelines
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the project by enhancing the testing framework for Jenkins pipelines. They made several code changes focused on improving the handling of kubernetes agents, including adding options for configuration and integrating with workspace volumes. Additionally, they modified the testing infrastructure to incorporate features like the `skipStagesAfterUnstable` option and implemented a test to enable the Kubernetes agent functionality.
jenkinstestingunitpipelines-as-codepipelines
linkedin/goavro
Sep 2021 - Oct 2022
Goavro is a library that encodes and decodes Avro data.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 23 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the `goavro` library, focused on enhancing the handling of Avro data. They added support for standard JSON encoding and decoding with full two-way functionality. Further contributions include fixing bugs related to name validation and correcting a compile error within the logical type tests. They also implemented changes to support the efficient encoding and decoding of union types, a core aspect of Avro.
avrogolang
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