Connor Braa
Software Engineer at LangChain
South Lake Tahoe, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolConnor Braa is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years building distributed systems, platform tooling, and infrastructure for cloud-native environments. He’s delivered production-grade systems at companies from Lytro to Brex and VMware, most recently working on container build systems and AI agent compute at Dagger and LangChain deployments. Connor is a strong back-end and DevOps practitioner with significant open-source contributions to Cloud Foundry projects (diego, bosh-bootloader, cli, cloud_controller_ng) that show deep expertise in container orchestration, deployment tooling, and reliable testing. He pairs hands-on systems design—networking and MTU tweaks, SSL/config hardening, and lifecycle-safe zero-downtime restarts—with leadership experience running platform teams that accelerate developer velocity. Based in South Lake Tahoe, he combines production-focused pragmatism with a track record of surfacing subtle operational issues into durable code and test coverage.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyKamiak High School
Github Skills (36)
bootloader10
bosh10
docker10
cloud-foundry10
software-lifecycle10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
testing10
lifecycle10
command-line-interface10
web-deploy10
dockers10
cicd10
security10
ruby10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cloud_controller_ng
Jun 2015 - Sep 2020
Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 163 commits, 29 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Connor's commits primarily focus on enhancing the instances reporter in the cloud controller, adding functionality to return uptime and since information. They updated the volume mount API to conform to a proposed standard. The user also worked on refactoring aspects of the codebase, removing metadata/command alias chains, and ensuring environment variables are appropriately encoded.
foundrycontrollercloud-foundrysap-hanaruby
cloudfoundry/bosh-bootloader
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
Command line utility for standing up a BOSH director on an IAAS of your choice.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:74 commits, 9 PRs, 71 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Connor's commits primarily focused on fixing an issue related to the state file name used by BOSH, ensuring that acceptance tests would pass. The user modified Go code to handle the correct state file name, which was critical for the proper functioning of the BOSH bootloader. Additionally, the commits included using `afero` for file system operations in tests.
gcpboshcloud-foundryterragruntcommand-line-utility
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