Eric Brown
Architect at Harness
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Brown is an architect and engineering leader with a decade of experience building cloud-native platforms, observability tooling, and embedded systems. He has led teams at LinkedIn, AppDynamics, and Apteligent modernizing observability and real-time infrastructure—rebuilt LinkedIn’s Observability UI used by 10,000 engineers and helped found core platform services like anomaly detection and API gateways. Technically versatile, he’s contributed to open-source robotics software (comma.ai’s openpilot) improving GM vehicle integrations and radar handling, and has deep hands-on skills across C++, Java, Python, Linux, and distributed systems (Kafka, Spark, Cassandra). Trained in both computer science and law, he combines pragmatic engineering with analytical rigor and a knack for operational reliability and automation. Now based in San Francisco, he focuses on architecting resilient, scalable systems that bridge embedded IoT and large-scale cloud services.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science and Political Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science and Political Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonCollege Computer Science, College Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeJ.D. Law, J.D. Law at University at Buffalo
English
Github Skills (8)
automobile10
system10
embedded10
driver10
python10
sys10
automotive10
robotics9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
commaai/openpilot
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
openpilot is an operating system for robotics. Currently, it upgrades the driver assistance system on 275+ supported cars.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 1 commit, 19 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Eric's contributions primarily focused on modifying and improving the openpilot's car-specific implementations, especially for General Motors (GM) vehicles. They addressed radar system integrations, including detecting missing or unplugged radar, and fixing wheel direction signals. They also made code changes related to vehicle fingerprinting and car configuration. Their work involved modifications in car-specific interface files, sensor interpretation files, and related values files.
cruise-controlracingopenpilotadaptiveadaptive-cruise-control
opgm/panda
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
code powering the comma.ai panda
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 1075 pushes in 26 days
pandacommapython
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