Bryan Macfarlane
Senior Director, Software Engineering At GitHub
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolBryan Macfarlane is a seasoned engineering leader with 14+ years of experience building and operating developer tooling and CI/CD platforms, currently serving as Senior Director of Software Engineering at GitHub. He has deep hands-on roots in build systems, automation, and DevOps from long tenures at Microsoft and Azure DevOps where he led Azure Pipelines engineering and agent/tooling work. Bryan is an active open-source contributor to high-profile projects such as the GitHub Actions toolkit and Microsoft Azure DevOps libraries, with practical contributions that modernized build pipelines, introduced async/await patterns, and improved task logging and secret handling. He combines managerial breadth with individual craft—authoring build scripts, refactoring TypeScript tooling, and improving cross-platform agent packaging. Based in Asheville, North Carolina, he focuses on making developer workflows more reliable and automatable at scale. An interesting detail: he pairs leadership with frequent low-level fixes, from gulpfile and TypeScript refactors to zip/unzip tool-cache enhancements that materially improve developer experience.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Engineering, Bachelor's degree Engineering at University of Central Florida
Stackoverflow
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642answers
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azure
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azure-devops
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cocoa-touch
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javascript
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cocoa
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rest
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Github Skills (63)
api-rest10
objective-c10
github-ci10
javascript10
ios10
apidoc10
ipad10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
command-line-interface10
typescript10
gulp10
bash10
cicd10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-pipelines-task-lib
Jul 2015 - Nov 2018
Libraries for writing VSTS and TFS build tasks
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:151 commits, 51 PRs, 146 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `azure-pipelines-task-lib` library. They refactored the node task library into a new repository, addressing logging issues by utilizing spawn for tool execution and handling buffered logs. The user also worked on bug fixes, including an argument quoting issue, and implemented features such as setting task results and setting variables. The user's contributions span both library code and build process improvements.
tfs
microsoft/typed-rest-client
Jan 2017 - Oct 2019
Node Rest and Http Clients with typings for use with TypeScript
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 51 commits, 29 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily contributed to the `typed-rest-client` library, focusing on enhancing its functionality and API. Their work included adding support for generics, enabling the handling of different response types. They also refactored the code to support absolute and relative URLs, and implemented the `options` request. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to redirect handling and incorporated new testing scenarios for HTTP and REST calls.
http-clienttypescript
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