Curtis Branum
Lead DevOps Engineer at When I Work
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCurtis Branum is a pragmatic Lead DevOps Engineer with 12+ years of software experience, currently ensuring 24/7 availability and resilient CI/CD, observability, and runtime systems for customer-facing applications in an AWS + Kubernetes environment. He evolved from full‑stack and growth-focused engineering—shipping PHP and React features and A/B experiments—to leading platform reliability efforts, bringing a product-minded perspective to infrastructure. Curtis prioritizes team quality of life through readable code, scalable designs, and strong working relationships rather than tool dogma. Based in Washington, D.C., he combines hands‑on troubleshooting with long-term operational improvements, often surfacing instrumentation and deployment changes that reduce toil behind the scenes.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Metro State UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Inver Hills Community College
Github Skills (31)
api8
package-json6
npm6
json4
factory4
nodejs4
php4
package4
rad4
wrapper4
pest3
psr-113
micro-framework3
testing3
api-client3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
curtis1000/vimrc
Mar 2016 - Nov 2023
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 9 months
curtis1000/wheniwork-api-php
Aug 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 release, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
api-clientapiapi-wrapperphpwrapper
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