Brian Stengaard
Internet Plumber at Google
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Stengaard is an experienced site reliability and DevOps engineer with 12 years building and operating large-scale infrastructure, currently focused on Google's DNS portfolio including Cloud DNS and Google Public DNS. Known as an "Internet Plumber," he specializes in connecting complex distributed systems, incident response, capacity planning, and CI/CD at scale. His background spans roles at Google, Podio, Issuu and Telenor, giving him deep production experience across cloud, on-prem, and networking stacks. An active open-source contributor, he improved the popular sup deployment tool with jump-host, inventory, and env management features that streamlined server orchestration. Based in California, he pairs a pragmatic, systems-first mindset with a master's in computer science from DTU.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor, Computer Science and Engineering at Syddansk Universitet / University of Southern DenmarkTechnical University of Denmark
Danish, English, German
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Github Skills (16)
go10
devops10
ssh10
yaml9
automations9
automation9
system-design8
pip6
nodejs6
amazon-web-services6
package-management6
amazon-s36
python6
podio6
pypi6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pressly/sup
Dec 2015 - Feb 2020
Super simple deployment tool - think of it like 'make' for a network of servers
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:17 commits, 7 PRs, 34 comments in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the `sup` project by adding features and refactoring existing code. Their work included adding support for jump hosts (bastions), introducing inventory features for host management, and incorporating environment variables like SUP_TIME and SUP_USER for dynamic configuration. Moreover, the user streamlined the codebase by cleaning up debug prints and updating dependencies, ensuring the project's maintainability and functionality. They also refactored and improved the `EnvList` for better environment variable management.
simple-deploymentdeploymentthinkdeployment-tooldocker
stengaard/sup
Dec 2015 - Feb 2020
Super simple deployment tool - just Unix - think of it like 'make' for a network of servers
Contributions:17 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 3 months
unixcontinuous-deploymenthostingsimple-deploymentdevops
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