Helena Brewster
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Splunk
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolHelena Brewster is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in Sydney with four years of hands-on experience building and leading cloud-native teams across startups and large enterprises. She combines deep backend expertise in Java, Python and C with practical experience in Kubernetes, GitOps (ArgoCD/Workflows), AWS, and CI/CD tooling like Bamboo to deliver resilient distributed systems. At Splunk and Telstra she progressed from developer to engineering manager roles owning DevOps, infrastructure and developer platforms, often bridging platform engineering and product delivery. Passionate about engineering culture, she focuses on changes that measurably improve team satisfaction and technical quality. Her academic background in Mathematics and Computer Science underpins a data-driven approach to architecture and operational reliability.
4 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
Github Skills (51)
docker10
pipeline10
k8s10
batch-processing10
continuous-deployment9
kubernetes9
cicd9
argo9
continuous-delivery9
machine-learning9
hpa9
cd9
kustomize9
jsonnet9
dokku9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jsun-splunk/fluent-plugin-kubernetes-metrics
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
Fluentd input plugin which queries Kubernetes kubelet summary API to collect Kubernetes metrics.
Contributions:13 pushes in 15 days
apicollectfluentdkubernetesfluentd-input-plugin
jsun-splunk/fluent-plugin-kubernetes-objects
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
This is the Fluentd input plugin which queries Kubernetes API to collect Kubernetes objects (like Nodes, Namespaces, Pods, etc.)
Contributions:14 pushes in 1 day
apicollectkubernetes-apinamespacesfluentd
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