Kristian Brasel
Sr. Software Engineer at VSP Vision Care
Elk Grove, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristian Brasel is a Sr. Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and maintaining web applications at VSP Vision Care, where he progressed from intern to senior engineer and repeatedly led award-winning hackathon teams. He combines full-stack development chops with practical security and access-control improvements, exemplified by his contributions to the popular self-hostable dashboard Dashy around authentication, cookie management, and admin UI controls. Comfortable coordinating cross-functional production installs and tooling (Python automation, Postman/Newman E2E tests, Jenkins, Jira), he excels at turning proofs-of-concept into reliable production features. As a former computer science tutor, he brings clear communication and mentorship skills to help teams learn and deliver under pressure. Based in Elk Grove, CA, Kristian is highly adaptable, curious, and motivated to tackle challenging projects that bridge technical depth and real business impact.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, SacramentoAssociate of Science (A.S.), Computer Science, Associate of Science (A.S.), Computer Science at Cosumnes River College
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Github Skills (19)
authorizations10
javascript10
dashboard10
user-authentication10
authentication10
authorization10
security9
vue9
nodejs9
self-hosting8
postman6
angular6
automation6
visualizer6
json6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Lissy93/dashy
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
🚀 A self-hostable personal dashboard built for you. Includes status-checking, widgets, themes, icon packs, a UI editor and tons more!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Kristian focused on enhancing the authentication and authorization features of the application, implementing changes related to user access and security. Their contributions included modifying the login process, improving cookie management, and setting local storage values based on successful authentication tokens. Furthermore, the user added functionality to disable UI configuration features for non-admin users and made changes to visibility checks, directly impacting the user experience and access control of the dashboard.
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Cereal916/Trick-or-Trivia
Nov 2017 - Jul 2018
This is a Halloween trivia game with multiple difficulty settings that runs on a raspberry pi and dispenses starbursts as a reward. CharlesJGantt laid out the framework for the app in 2015 and I expanded on it in 2017.
Contributions:25 commits, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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