Laura Brehm
Software Engineer at Docker, Inc
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLaura Brehm is a software engineer based in Berlin with five years of experience building and maintaining cloud-native container tooling and production systems. At Docker she maintains Compose and contributes to containerd and Moby, shipping fixes and features that improve runtime reliability, image handling, CLI flows, and build/release pipelines for widely used projects in the container ecosystem. Previously she scaled customer-facing platforms across 20+ countries at Volkswagen Digital Solutions and modernized deployments and monitoring at Tekever by moving legacy .NET to Linux containers. A terminal-focused engineer and open-source maintainer, she combines backend and DevOps expertise with an applied-mathematics mindset to tackle tricky edge cases like overlay snapshot mounting and multi-platform image resolution.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Mathematics, Applied Mathematics at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (28)
e2e-testing10
container10
docker10
back-end-development10
e2e-test10
testing10
authentication10
user-authentication10
docker-compose10
dockers10
cicd10
containerd10
go10
overlayfs10
e2e10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
docker/compose
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Define and run multi-container applications with Docker
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:164 reviews, 100 commits, 89 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Laura contributed to the `docker/compose` repository by implementing new features, improving existing ones, and improving the overall build and release process. Their work included setting network modes, adding container links, and modifying the `compose run` command to include a build option. The user also introduced significant improvements to the testing infrastructure and added E2E tests. Furthermore, the user worked on improving the reliability and efficiency of the `compose stop`, `start`, and `kill` commands.
golangcontainersmulti-containerdocker-imageorchestration
docker/cli
Jun 2022 - Mar 2025
The Docker CLI
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:560 reviews, 137 PRs, 64 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Laura primarily focused on improving the Docker CLI, specifically addressing credential helper issues and the device code login flow. They fixed bugs related to credential helper failures, preventing incorrect behavior. Additionally, they implemented device code login flow, which is a new feature. They also made changes to support new schema versions for Docker Compose.
dockerdocker-clicli
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