Brian Towles
Principle Software Engineer 1 at Cloudera
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Towles is a Principal Software Engineer with 14+ years of experience architecting and delivering large-scale, web-integrated and enterprise systems from front-end to hardware. Based in Austin, he blends deep systems-integration instincts with hands-on work in cloud-native deployments, microservices, CI/CD, and distributed data pipelines (Kafka, MongoDB, AWS). His contributions to notable open-source projects such as Cloudera's Cloudbreak and MongoDB performance tooling show a focus on automation, cloud identity integration, and operational robustness. Comfortable across languages and stacks, he pairs server, database and middleware expertise with production OS and hardware knowledge to make complex systems “just work.” An aerospace and CS graduate, he often applies rigorous systems thinking to pragmatic engineering and deployment problems.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Aerospace Engineering and Computer Science, BS, Aerospace Engineering and Computer Science at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (19)
benchmark10
deploying10
python10
benchmarking10
mongodb-database10
saltstack10
freeipa10
mongodb10
devops10
java9
bash9
automation9
javas9
automations9
json8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo-perf
Oct 2014 - Feb 2015
performance tools for mongodb
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:81 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on improving the performance tools for MongoDB. Their contributions included enhancements to error handling within the `benchrun.py` script, addressing issues related to JSON parsing and errors from the mongo shell. They also implemented changes related to dependencies, including moving dependencies to local libraries, and updated the script to pull information from GitHub. Further improvements to the build and automation processes and also included refactoring for the MMS automation.
performance-toolsperformancemongodb
hortonworks/cloudbreak
Mar 2020 - Aug 2020
CDP Public Cloud is an integrated analytics and data management platform deployed on cloud services. It offers broad data analytics and artificial intelligence functionality along with secure user access and data governance features.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 24 commits, 31 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Brian's commits primarily focus on enhancing the FreeIPA integration within the cloud environment. They added automated cloud backups for FreeIPA, integrating with the telemetry system. The user implemented features to handle Azure-specific configurations and DNSSEC validation, demonstrating a deep understanding of cloud platform dependencies. Additionally, the user contributed to the automation of deployment and management processes through modifications to Salt scripts and configurations.
data-management-platformcdp-public-cloudsecurecloud-servicesdata-management
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