Jace Browning
Staff Release Reliability Engineer at Zoo
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolJace Browning is a Staff Release Reliability Engineer with 13 years of experience building developer-facing tooling that speeds delivery and raises quality across embedded, mobile, and web products. He specializes in test automation and CI/CD—particularly Python-based frameworks—and has a track record of founding Developer Experience teams that automate service creation, unify local tooling, and perform risk-free upgrades in legacy monoliths. As a longtime open-source contributor he’s improved widely used projects like pipenv and Flask-API and maintains a Python package template and a meme-generation API, showing both practical tooling and product-focused backend work. He co-founded Citizen Labs to apply software to civic engagement, building voter tools and public-data overlays, and runs a consultancy creating custom web apps and APIs. Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Jace combines hands-on engineering with programmatic QA and release reliability, and is known for turning flaky tests and brittle pipelines into measurable CI improvements. Outside work he volunteers at tech events and channels that community energy into civic activism and open-source maintenance.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Grand Valley State University
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Github Skills (48)
sanic10
api-rest10
pytest10
python10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
packaging10
poet10
cookiecutter10
templater10
template-engine10
makefile10
flask-ask10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
jacebrowning/template-python
Nov 2013 - Dec 2022
My template for new Python libraries.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 874 commits, 186 PRs in 9 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jace primarily contributed to the Python package template, making improvements to the setup process, including moving to a README.md file, cleaning up the Makefile, and adding a changelog. They also refactored the code to move the version information into the package itself, updated the PyPI URL, and added a CLI and GUI interface with sample functionalities. Moreover, they enhanced testing using tools such as pytest and implemented features like branch coverage.
templatepythonjinja2project-creationmakefile
flask-api/flask-api
Apr 2015 - Nov 2022
Browsable web APIs for Flask.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 10 reviews, 163 commits in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jace primarily contributed to the maintenance and evolution of the Flask API project. Their work included bumping version numbers, indicating ongoing development and releases. They addressed bug fixes, specifically related to test discovery and HTML encoding. Additionally, the user made changes to support newer versions of the Flask framework.
apipythonflask-apiflaskbrowsable
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