Brian Rak
Staff Engineer at VMware
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Rak is a Staff Engineer in Austin with 11 years of experience building cloud and embedded systems, currently shaping the next-generation Kubernetes platform on vSphere. He blends deep systems and networking expertise—Go, Kubernetes, HAProxy, Linux—with a history of solving distributed backup/restore at scale and contributing to instant-clone VM technology (patent filed). Past roles span secure boot and PKI for automotive embedded systems to full-stack tooling and automation, showing comfort across resource-constrained devices and large enterprise stacks. Known for pragmatic engineering and UX-minded infrastructure work, he pairs low-level security and embedded experience with large-scale cloud networking and HA design. An unusual combination of formal music training and dual degrees in Computer Science and Information & Process Management hints at disciplined creativity and strong process thinking.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Indiana University BloomingtonBachelor of Science (BS), Information and Process Management, Bachelor of Science (BS), Information and Process Management at Indiana University - Kelley School of BusinessPercussion Performance, Percussion Performance at University of Illinois, School of Music
Github Skills (63)
vsphere10
api10
bit10
json4s10
spray10
vmware9
linux-kernel9
linux9
jwt9
golang9
argonaut9
upickle9
play-json9
go8
kernel8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
brakthehack/govmomi
Jul 2022 - Nov 2024
Go library for the VMware vSphere API
Contributions:6 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 4 months
golangapivmware-vspherego-libraryvsphere-api
brakthehack/NESEMU
Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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