Demian Brecht
Lead Member Of Technical Staff - Identity Services at Salesforce
Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarDemian Brecht is a Lead Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce with 14 years building reliable distributed systems, API platforms, and production-grade infrastructure. He designs and implements identity services, docker-backed API test pipelines, and company-wide monitoring and automated alerting while helping shape open source policy as part of Salesforce’s OSS working group. Comfortable both in hands-on Python backend engineering and in driving engineering standards, he led efforts to standardize Python practices and contributed to high-profile projects like the Python Package Index and the popular simple-salesforce client. His background spans game-scale multiplayer systems at Demonware to large-scale deployment tooling and DevOps pipelines at PopCap and EA, revealing a career-long focus on scalability and operational resilience. Based in Abbotsford, BC, he pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with a collaborative, ego-less approach to team culture and open source. Outside work he’s an outdoors lover who channels curiosity into tackling “hard problems” in infrastructure and security.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
French, English
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
jquery10
python10
wtforms10
api-client10
testing10
user-authentication10
authentication10
google-recaptcha10
php10
api10
http-request10
salesforce10
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
simple-salesforce/simple-salesforce
Aug 2015 - Mar 2018
A very simple Salesforce.com REST API client for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 commits, 27 PRs, 30 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Demian's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the `simple-salesforce` library. Their work involved implementing the ability to inject custom requests sessions, exposing advanced features like proxies and session hooks to the user. The changes included modifications to the `api.py`, `login.py`, and `tests` files, demonstrating a focus on extending the library's flexibility and improving its test coverage. The commits address issues related to authentication, session handling, and proxy configurations, indicating a focus on improving the library's functionality.
api-clientapipythonsalesforcerest-api-client
pypi/warehouse
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
The Python Package Index
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 7 PRs, 41 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Demian primarily contributed to the implementation of user registration functionality within the Python Package Index. This involved the creation of a reCAPTCHA service, a registration form, and related template elements, addressing security considerations. Furthermore, the user addressed password handling by implementing secure password hashing. The user also performed code cleanup tasks and addressed linting issues.
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