Joey Bratton
Software Engineering Architect at Salesforce
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolJoey Bratton is a Software Engineering Architect with 16 years of experience building resilient, distributed systems and improving engineering effectiveness. Based in Louisville, he has advanced through multiple senior roles at Salesforce where he now focuses on availability and resilience engineering. Joey blends hands-on backend work—such as refactoring and porting the Java control plane for Envoy—to strengthen API compatibility, caching, and integration test fidelity. He brings a practical emphasis on high-fidelity testing strategies that reduce risk in large-scale systems. A dual computer engineering and computer science graduate from the University of Louisville, he pairs rigorous academic training with enterprise-scale execution. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex distributed problems into maintainable, production-ready designs.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Engineering and Computer Science, B.S., Computer Engineering and Computer Science at University of Louisville
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Github Skills (10)
javas10
control-panel10
api10
control-center10
apidoc10
java10
grpc10
protocol-buffers9
testing9
caching9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
envoyproxy/java-control-plane
Feb 2018 - Jun 2019
Java implementation of an Envoy gRPC control plane
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 89 PRs, 114 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Joey Bratton's contributions primarily focused on refactoring and porting code from go-control-plane. The commits include changes to the cache design, such as adding overloads and refactoring storage. He also updated API definitions and integration tests, reflecting a focus on enhancing the control plane's functionality and adapting to new API versions.
envoygrpccontrol-planeplanejava
joeyb/istio
Jan 2019 - Aug 2020
Istio service mesh for polyglot microservice applications
Contributions:36 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 6 months
meshpolyglotistiokubernetesmicroservices
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