Bryan Gilbert
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolBryan Gilbert is a Senior Software Engineer at AWS with 14 years of experience building high-concurrency, low-latency systems and distributed back-end services. He has led engineering and CTO responsibilities for a gaming and real-time media startup, and earlier work spans Scala, Java, Clojure, Play/Akka stacks and large-scale backend APIs. Bryan is an active open-source contributor to prominent Emacs ecosystems (Spacemacs, Doom Emacs) and to the WeeChat Slack integration, showing both deep tooling/configuration expertise and practical API-driven integrations. Based in Charleston, SC, he combines production-grade cloud engineering with a penchant for developer ergonomics and editor-level customizations that improve daily workflows. An early hands-on background in mechanical work adds a pragmatic, systems-oriented perspective to his software craftsmanship.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Master of Science, Computer Science, Software Engineering at College of CharlestonBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at The Citadel
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Github Skills (36)
apim10
slack-api10
python10
evil-mode10
scripting10
configuration-management10
emacs-lisp10
vim10
chat10
script10
api10
emacs10
configuration-file10
configurations10
keybindings10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
doomemacs/doomemacs
Apr 2017 - Dec 2020
An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker
Role in this project:
Software Engineer (Configuration & Customization)
Software Engineer (Configuration & Customization)Contributions:22 commits, 31 PRs, 65 comments in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily contributes to the Emacs configuration framework Doom Emacs. Their commits focus on enhancing the user experience and extending functionality. They added new features such as `git-timemachine`, integrated `evil-mc`, and modified keybindings for better navigation and workflow within the Emacs environment. The user also addressed minor usability issues and improved the interaction with existing features by modifying configurations of different packages within the Doom Emacs framework.
vimemacs-configurationmartianemacsemacs-lsp
wee-slack/wee-slack
Mar 2016 - Jul 2017
A WeeChat script for Slack.com. Supports threads and reactions, synchronizes read markers, provides typing notification, etc..
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 17 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily contributed to the core functionality of the WeeChat script for Slack. Their work focused on enhancing message handling, including adding options for message colorization based on the sending nick and the prefix. They also implemented features to improve the synchronization of unread counts and update the hotlist in WeeChat by interacting with the Slack API. These changes suggest a focus on integrating Slack's features within WeeChat.
weechatmarkersthreadsslacknotification
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