Caleb Brose
Staff Software Engineer at GitHub
Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCaleb Brose is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, developer tools, and automation that scale for millions of users. He currently leads technical strategy and teams on GitHub Codespaces, delivering major cost reductions (up to 90% COGS) through novel Azure storage work and shipping clients for the GitHub CLI, JupyterLab, and JetBrains. A hands-on leader, he grows engineers—onboarding, mentoring to senior promotions—and drives inner-loop productivity via debugging and automation tooling. His background at Microsoft includes full-stack work on Visual Studio Online and large-scale data platforms at Bing Ads, where he automated monitoring and cut error resolution from days to minutes. An active contributor to GitHub’s official CLI, he has added Codespaces features in Go that improve workflows like suggesting repository names and opening Codespaces in JupyterLab. Based in Iowa City, he combines deep systems engineering with product-focused delivery and a knack for turning operational problems into durable platform improvements.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at Iowa State University
English
Github Skills (7)
github-cli10
git10
codespaces10
go10
api10
apidoc10
ssh9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cli/cli
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
GitHub’s official command line tool
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:206 reviews, 98 commits, 45 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Caleb's primary contribution focused on enhancing the GitHub CLI's functionality related to codespaces. They implemented and modified backend code, primarily in Go, to add features such as suggesting repository names during codespace creation and providing the ability to open codespaces in JupyterLab. These changes involved modifications to API interaction, SSH key management, and the underlying codespace infrastructure, improving the user experience.
golangcommand-line-toolgocommand-linecli
cmbrose/github-docs-to-wiki
Dec 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:24 releases, 1 review, 4 commits in 1 year 7 months
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