Brien Dieterle is a DevOps engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience blending systems administration, automation, and creative software development from Eugene, Oregon. Currently at Terascope, he applies a long track record of maintaining Windows, macOS, Linux and VMware environments and building integrations and workflows honed during 15 years as a college sysadmin. He’s also the creator of FocalPaint for iPad and an active contributor to the MyPaint project, where he implemented input handling and UI features like barrel rotation and brush engine integrations—showing a rare mix of artistic sensibility and low-level input engineering. Comfortable across SQL, MDM, Kerberos/LDAP, IIS/Tomcat and scripting, he focuses on practical, reliable solutions that bridge user-facing tools and infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Academy of Art University
Bachelor's degree, Fine and Studio Arts, Bachelor's degree, Fine and Studio Arts at Arizona State University
Associate's degree, General Studies, Associate's degree, General Studies at Chandler/Gilbert Community College
MyPaint is a simple drawing and painting program that works well with Wacom-style graphics tablets.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:10 releases, 81 commits, 39 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Brien primarily contributed to the MyPaint project by implementing features related to input handling and the user interface. They added support for barrel rotation, including a preference setting, and integrated view zoom and rotation into the brush engine and various input modes. Additionally, the user addressed multiple bug fixes and implemented improvements across different components, like the color picker and brush previews, and also refactored code to support new features.
libmypaint, a.k.a. "brushlib", is a library for making brushstrokes which is used by MyPaint and other projects.
Contributions:67 commits, 461 pushes, 87 branches in 3 years 3 months
mypaint
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