Brian Vanderbusch
Senior Software Engineer at State Farm
Bloomington, Illinois, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrian Vanderbusch is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed, scalable services and federated GraphQL platforms at State Farm. He is a JavaScript-first full-stack developer who routinely architects Linux-based systems, reactive and graph-driven solutions, and HTML5 front ends while also targeting mobile, Windows, Chrome/Electron, and IoT devices. His background spans DevOps and automation—demonstrated by contributions that improved multi-architecture Docker builds, buildkit, and CI workflows for popular projects like OctoPrint and Destiny Item Manager. Comfortable in many languages (Bash, Ruby, C#, PHP, Scala), he pairs hands-on coding with infrastructure work to optimize build and deployment pipelines. Outside of work he prototypes electronics on Arduino and Raspberry Pi—often building LEDs, home-security gadgets, pet-focused devices, and drone hacks that inform practical engineering tradeoffs.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (39)
docker10
scripting10
configuration-management10
environment-variables10
dockers10
cicd10
webpack10
script10
webpacker10
build-automation10
sh10
shell10
bower9
buildkite9
puppeteer9
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
OctoPrint/octoprint-docker
Mar 2020 - Oct 2022
The dockerized snappy web interface for your 3D printer!
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:4 releases, 12 reviews, 342 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Brian focused on improving the build and deployment process of the OctoPrint Docker image. They implemented buildkit, multi-architecture builds, and registry caching to optimize build times and support different platforms. They also addressed issues related to API rate limiting and updated tagging strategies. Their contributions included modifications to Docker configurations, build scripts, and environment files, indicating a strong focus on automation and infrastructure.
raspberry-pioctoprintweb-interface3d-printerprinter
voxpupuli/puppet-gitlab
Apr 2017 - Sep 2019
Puppet module to manage Gitlab (Omnibus)
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 147 commits, 67 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on improving the module's testing and configuration management capabilities. They refactored the code to iterate through supported operating systems, ensuring comprehensive test coverage. Furthermore, they addressed service management aspects by removing service provider specifications and updating the resource ordering for more reliable service control. The user also made significant changes to the deployment of the gitlab configuration using omnibus, addressing package dependencies.
puppetpuppet-modulegitlablinux-puppet-modulegitlab-omnibus
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