Brian Upton
Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Foundry at Pivotal Software, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Upton is a Senior Software Engineer focused on Cloud Foundry with 13 years of experience building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems. Based in San Francisco, he brings deep backend and DevOps expertise from his current role at Pivotal and his earlier experience founding and leading Rally.org as CTO. His open-source contributions to the widely used BOSH project show a pragmatic focus on reliability and operability—refactoring core director logic, improving metrics, and optimizing task cleanup and migrations. Comfortable across release engineering, deployment tooling, and system maintenance, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with hands-on engineering to keep complex cloud platforms running smoothly.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (9)
database-migrations10
rspec10
database-migration10
ruby10
devops9
performance-optimization9
sequel8
mysql8
prometheus7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/bosh
Feb 2021 - Dec 2022
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:26 reviews, 24 commits, 29 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the BOSH Director project, focusing on refactoring and improving existing functionalities. They implemented changes to enhance metrics collection, optimized task cleanup processes using `paged_each`, and addressed warnings in testing frameworks. The user also refactored agent settings updating and added pre-population for blobstore and NATS shas in migrations, indicating a focus on system maintenance and optimization.
foundryboshpcfchainengineering
ystros/throneteki-client
May 2018 - Dec 2021
The client code for Throneteki, a browser based implementation of the A Game Of Thrones LCG
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 3 years 7 months
lcgbrowserjavascriptgame-ofclient-code
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