Dean Brunt
DevOps Engineer at Thirdfort
Torridge District, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDean Brunt is a DevOps Engineer with nine years of experience building reliable, cost-conscious cloud and web platforms for fintech and enterprise customers. Currently at Thirdfort, he focuses on secure, compliant onboarding workflows and has a track record of turning compliance and telemetry into measurable cost recovery and operational insight. Previously he led SRE at Ziglu and contributed backend features to the widely used grafana-operator—adding InfluxDB support, proxying and dashboard-loading from Grafana.com—to improve observability and integrations. Dean combines full-stack development chops with hands-on infrastructure expertise, often delivering pragmatic tools to close gaps in existing systems. Trained in physics at the University of Exeter, he brings analytical rigor and a knack for simplifying complex problems into maintainable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics at University of Exeter
Github Skills (11)
golang10
kubernetes10
kubernetes-operator10
go10
grafana10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
apidoc9
api9
monitoring8
yaml8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana-operator
Dec 2020 - Sep 2021
An operator for Grafana that installs and manages Grafana instances, Dashboards and Datasources through Kubernetes/OpenShift CRs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 28 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Dean contributed to the Grafana Operator by implementing new features and improving existing functionalities. They added support for InfluxDB datasource fields, deployment strategy overrides, and rendering configuration, indicating a focus on extending the operator's capabilities. Furthermore, the user integrated proxy support and dashboard loading from Grafana.com, expanding the operator's ability to interact with external services and provide broader dashboard management.
observabilityopenshiftoperatorgrafanaprometheus
DeanBrunt/grafana-operator
Dec 2020 - Nov 2021
An operator that installs Grafana and manages Dashboards
Contributions:15 pushes, 8 branches in 10 months
dashboardsoperatorkubernetesgrafanaprometheus
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