Greg Bray
Customer Engineer - NA Technology Team at Google
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolGreg Bray is a seasoned cloud and reliability engineer with 13 years building and operating large-scale web and infrastructure platforms, currently advising North American customers as a Google Cloud Customer Engineer. He brings deep expertise in Kubernetes, Anthos, service mesh, serverless and CI/CD from roles at Google and hands-on SRE work at Reddit, Stack Exchange, and Walmart Labs managing high-traffic CDN/edge systems. Greg is comfortable across public and private clouds, having designed Azure ingress infrastructure, automated deployments with Terraform/Salt/ARM, and managed Prometheus monitoring and large SQL/Windows estates. A pragmatic troubleshooter and mentor, he has led migrations to Kubernetes, owned on-call rotations for top-tier properties, and trained teams on platform onboarding. His open-source contributions include stabilizing the WMI Go library and improving Bosun/scollector monitoring, reflecting a focus on performance, memory-safety, and observability. Based in Salt Lake City, he combines systems-level rigor with customer-facing architecture and pre-sales escalation experience.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (38)
debugging10
debug10
wmi10
windows10
memory-management10
object-model10
batchfile10
system-monitoring10
component-model10
go10
performance-optimization10
sys10
curl10
com-object10
operating-system10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
StackExchange/wmi
Dec 2014 - Feb 2017
WMI for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 16 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily focused on debugging and improving the `wmi` library, a Go package for interacting with Windows Management Instrumentation. Their contributions include fixing memory leaks related to COM object handling, specifically addressing issues with incorrect resource release within the Ole library and incorrect threading models. The user also implemented a fix for parsing integer values from string representations and introduced memory tests for the library. Further contributions involved reverting changes that caused memory leaks and performance degradation, indicating a focus on stability and performance optimization.
golangwmi
bosun-monitor/bosun
Oct 2014 - Jun 2017
Time Series Alerting Framework
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:215 commits, 156 PRs, 246 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Greg contributed to the scollector project, a time series alerting framework. Their work focused on enhancing the monitoring capabilities, including adding metrics for Windows system processes, uptime, and disk-related metrics. The user also implemented changes to the data collection process, and corrected errors. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the data collection and metric reporting capabilities of the system.
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