Tres Brenan
Technical Lead at Palantir Technologies
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTres Brenan is a Technical Lead with 12 years of experience building high-performance backend systems and pragmatic ML/AI tooling, currently leading core infrastructure at Palantir in Palo Alto. He combines systems-level rigor (databases, search, deployment, and performance) with a taste for elegant, simple solutions that squeeze value from available compute. His open-source work includes full‑stack contributions to Obsidian plugins like Dataview/Datacore—focusing on UX and speed—and earlier contributions to Minecraft mod Botania, reflecting both tooling and product-minded engineering. A UT Austin double-major in Computer Science and Mathematics (MS, CS; BS, CS & Math) with near-perfect grades, Tres is comfortable refactoring large legacy codebases and optimizing demanding pipelines, and he enjoys turning maintenance burdens into measurable platform stability wins.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.97, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.97 at The University of Texas at Austin
English
Github Skills (31)
markdown10
minecraft10
algorithms10
debug10
javascript10
minecraft-forge10
typescript10
data-structure10
java10
plugin10
esbuild10
javas10
minecraft-fabric10
markdown-it10
query-language10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
A data index and query language over Markdown files, for https://obsidian.md/.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:143 releases, 165 reviews, 503 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Tres primarily contributed to the development of a data indexing and query language over markdown files. They implemented features to parse and process inline fields within markdown documents, including the addition of functions like 'truncate' and 'extract' to the query language, as well as the ability to display Markdown-formatted content within table and list views. The user also improved the API for creating tasks and working with their contents and data. Furthermore, improvements were made for better handling of various edge cases, enhancing functionality and improving UX in the product.
queryindexquery-languageobsidian-mdperformance
blacksmithgu/datacore
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Work-in-progress successor to Dataview with a focus on UX and speed.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 39 reviews, 12 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tres appears to be primarily focused on developing the core functionality of a plugin for Obsidian, likely Datacore's successor. Their contributions involve significant refactoring and restructuring to implement a new build system using esbuild and yarn for faster builds and improved performance. Furthermore, the user has worked on basic plugin structure setup and incorporating Dataview-specific styling and components.
databaseobsidianobsidian-mdpersonal-knowledge-managementpkm
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