Lev Brouk
Software Engineer at E2B
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolLev Brouk is a seasoned software engineer based in San Francisco with over a decade of experience building and hardening backend systems for cloud-native and collaboration platforms. He has shipped production-critical features at Mattermost and contributed to high-performance messaging infrastructure at NATS, focusing on plugin integrations, token management, config reloads, and efficient file upload handling. His background spans startups and large tech firms—from building HTTP ingress/load-balancers and security proxies to early roles at Microsoft and Amazon—bringing deep systems, networking, and performance optimization expertise. An active open-source contributor, Lev’s work on widely used projects like Mattermost and nats-server reflects a knack for pragmatic, low-level fixes that improve reliability and resource usage. Outside engineering he pursues strapless kitesurfing and fixed-gear cycling, and he cites the “Worse is Better” philosophy, hinting at a preference for simple, robust solutions over theoretical elegance.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
MS Applied Math, MS Applied Math at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
English, Russian, French
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Github Skills (21)
apidoc10
github-integration10
message-queue10
plugin10
nats-server10
go10
api10
file-upload10
golang10
oauth10
testing9
back-end-development9
github9
distributed-systems9
mattermost9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mattermost/mattermost-plugin-github
Oct 2019 - Jun 2022
GitHub plugin for Mattermost
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 21 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Lev primarily focused on enhancing the back-end functionality of the Mattermost GitHub plugin. Their contributions included fixing issues with the plugin's headers, implementing token refresh mechanisms, and updating the flow library. They also made changes to the core plugin code to integrate with GitHub's API and user authentication. The user's work directly improved the plugin's ability to integrate with GitHub and provided better user token management.
github-botpluginpull-requestmattermostgrav-plugin
nats-io/nats-server
Sep 2015 - Dec 2024
High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:193 reviews, 59 PRs, 256 pushes in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Lev's commits primarily focus on implementing and testing features related to server configuration reloading and the management of server events. They added functionality to reload the server config by sending a message, and tested edge cases involving incorrect configurations. The commits involved modifications to the server's event handling logic, including adding new subjects for reload requests and writing corresponding handlers. The user also improved existing tests by using more idiomatic practices and fixed existing test failures.
messaging-systemnats-ionative-messagingnatsmessage-bus
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