Brian Waldon
VP Of Engineering at Antaris Inc
Olympia, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Waldon is a VP of Engineering with 15 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver cloud-native, distributed systems for both “New Space” and core infrastructure projects. Currently at Antaris, he blends systems engineering for satellite platforms with a strong history in backend and DevOps work from roles at CoreOS, Planet Labs, and Diamanti. A prolific open-source contributor, Brian has hands-on commits to high-profile projects like etcd, coreos-vagrant, and go-systemd—improving reliability, logging, and systemd/D-Bus integrations that power production clusters. He pairs product sensibility (former VP of Product) with deep technical chops across Kubernetes, OpenStack, and infrastructure automation, and also runs a consulting practice focused on distributed systems and ML/data pipelines. Based in Olympia, WA, Brian brings a practical, code-first leadership style and a knack for turning complex orchestration problems into maintainable operational tooling.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia Tech
Github Skills (62)
git10
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
apidoc10
scripting10
api-design10
testing10
command-line-interface10
configuration-management10
bash10
horizon10
etcd10
dockers10
dbus10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
coreos/coreos-vagrant
Mar 2014 - Jun 2015
Minimal Vagrantfile for Container Linux
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:42 commits, 12 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Brian focused on modifying the `override-plugin.rb` file to configure networking within the CoreOS environment. These changes involved monkey-patching the existing plugin, utilizing cloud-config to provision networks and hostnames, and addressing missing environment variables. They implemented changes to ensure the CoreOS guest plugin worked correctly. The user's work directly impacted the setup and configuration of the virtual machines managed by coreos-vagrant.
vagrantvmslibvirtlinuxdocker
openstack/glance
Apr 2011 - Aug 2013
OpenStack Image Management (Glance). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:355 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Brian focused on improving the testing of the Glance API by adding new tests and features to the `bin/glance` utility. Their contributions centered around creating comprehensive test cases to validate image deletion and attribute modifications. They also enhanced the functionality of the CLI tool by integrating features such as pagination, filtering and sorting of image data. Furthermore, the user added test coverage for the v2 API.
opendevglanceimage-managementopenstack
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