Trevor Brown
Senior Software Engineer at Rent.
Sarasota, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolTrevor Brown is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems from Florida, currently driving backend work at Rent. He specializes in Erlang and Elixir, blending functional-language expertise with practical DevOps skills evidenced by contributions to asdf, asdf-erlang, and tooling like credo. Trevor has a strong background in Ruby and JavaScript from earlier roles, and he routinely improves developer experience by automating builds, refining version management, and adding robust test coverage. He is comfortable across the stack—prototyping, shipping server-side systems, and fixing thorny integration bugs between client and server. An understated strength is his long-term commitment to open source maintenance and build/release automation that keeps teams productive and systems reproducible.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at High school graduate, Brown Family Academy (Homeschool)
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Github Skills (34)
git10
github-ci10
static-analysis10
scripting10
elixir10
plugin-development10
bash10
cicd10
ruby10
code-analysis10
script10
build-automation10
version-control10
management10
linter10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
asdf-vm/asdf-ruby
Nov 2015 - Jan 2023
Ruby plugin for asdf version manager
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:23 reviews, 190 commits, 295 PRs in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Trevor primarily focused on maintaining and updating the `asdf-ruby` plugin, specifically related to the `ruby-build` dependency. Their contributions involved automating the installation and management of `ruby-build`, including updating its version and ensuring correct integration with the asdf environment. They also addressed path handling, cleaned up code, and made build-related fixes to ensure stability and compatibility.
asdfruby
asdf-vm/asdf
Nov 2015 - Jan 2023
Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 releases, 401 reviews, 513 commits in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Trevor primarily focused on refactoring and improving the core functionality of the asdf version manager, concentrating on the handling of plugin versions. They implemented features to support and manage legacy version files and made improvements to ensure the accurate selection and installation of tool versions based on different configurations. The user also made improvements to the codebase around edge cases and also improved automated shim script generation. Additionally, the user contributed to improvements in testing of plugins including permissions and licensing.
elixirerlangnodejsrubyversion-manager
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