Tristan Debrunner is a hands-on CTO and engineering generalist with 10 years of experience building high-performance systems—from Solana’s web-scale blockchain and GPU-accelerated Proof of History work to cryogenic wafer automation and portable antenna/underwater video hardware. An Engineering Physics graduate from Colorado School of Mines with minors in CS and EE, he blends deep systems programming, DevOps automation, and embedded hardware design to deliver production-grade, scalable solutions. At Solana he focused on infrastructure automation for datacenter nodes and integrations like Move, demonstrating both low-level systems skill and large-scale deployment know-how. Now based in Golden, CO, he leads technology for Atlantis Sports, applying his unusual mix of blockchain, robotics, and sensor-system experience to niche sports tech.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Engineering Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Engineering Physics at Colorado School of Mines
Web-Scale Blockchain for fast, secure, scalable, decentralized apps and marketplaces.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
Contributions:10 commits, 42 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Tristan primarily contributed to setting up and configuring the infrastructure for Solana nodes. They added scripts for installing and configuring datacenter nodes, including setting up SSH, sudo access, CUDA drivers, and network configurations. Additionally, the user modified existing scripts to improve the deployment and setup processes, demonstrating a focus on automation and system configuration.
Contributions:168 pushes, 30 branches in 11 months
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Tristan Debrunner - Chief Technology Officer at Atlantis Sports