Brendan O'Bra

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Seasoned engineer with a proven track record of delivering solutions. Technical leader with an encouraging and consultative approach to mentoring and talent development. Currently working in Rust. @ Comcast Silicon Valley Innovation Center
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San Francisco Bay Area, United States, United States
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About Brendan O'Bra

brendan@obrafamily.orgI am a seasoned developer, and have been privileged to work in a diverse range of problem domains, from newspaper prepress software, to blood bank software, to a variety of application, SAN and network management products. I've also worked in payment card systems, and have more recently worked on automation, scalability and product development for Comcast. In my current role of Principal Engineer at Comcast, I work with a great group that values engineering as a means to an end, and have participated in bringing many products to market (as well as providing ongoing operational support of projects in my portfolio, aka "DevOps"). I also contribute significantly as a mentor and provide consultation to less experienced developers.Most recently, I have worked on Comcast' Entertainment OS offering, where I work on a team that develops on-device middleware for streaming hardware, in Rust. This project allows me to be involved in many subdomains, including embedded (ARM) development, firmware, CI and also cloud side components for observability, developer productivity and QA automation. Rust is awesome.I am an agile practitioner, and prefer to work in languages and frameworks that smoothly support TDD.

Brendan O'Bra's Current Company Details
Comcast Silicon Valley Innovation Center

Comcast Silicon Valley Innovation Center

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Seasoned engineer with a proven track record of delivering solutions. Technical leader with an encouraging and consultative approach to mentoring and talent development. Currently working in Rust.
Brendan O'Bra Work Experience Details
  • Comcast Silicon Valley Innovation Center
    Principal Software Engineer, Rust Developer
    Comcast Silicon Valley Innovation Center Mar 2022 - Present
    Sunnyvale, Ca, Us
    IC/Lead on an embedded project developed in Rust. Contributor on all aspects of project, including (but not limited to) feature definition, coding and leadership of less experienced ICs. SME for cross platform development, Yocto/Bitbake intergration, and all aspects of CI. Feature development in Rust. Cross organizational collaboration. Drove several key initiatives to completion.
  • Comcast Silicon Valley Innovation Center
    Principal Software Engineer
    Comcast Silicon Valley Innovation Center Mar 2013 - Mar 2022
    Sunnyvale, Ca, Us
    Principal Engineer on variety of projects , in a variety of languages/tech stacks. Including (but not limited to) heterogeneous (AWS/Openstack/VMWare) cloud scaling tooling (in pre container days), voice control for settops, middleware microservices for consumer facing video products, and work in observability, build and deployment automation.Drove adoption/implemented observability (all tiers) using OpenTelemetry in Java/Go/Javascript for Comcast' new XClass TV product.Extensive work in Kubernetes (EKS) using Helm/Istio/Prometheus at scale.Development of full end-end Concourse pipelines for all services in my portfolio. Pipeline perform full CI as well as a deployments to EKS.Mentored junior developers via consultation, Pull Requests, and full transparency about everything, with special emphasis on surfacing my own mistakes to build culture of embracing risk.
  • Tvworks (A Division Of Comcast)
    Senior Software Developer
    Tvworks (A Division Of Comcast) Oct 2011 - May 2013
    Philadelphia, Pa, Us
    Integration test driver, Puppeteer and general software dude. Actually Virtual, and functionally functional. I'm not an Engineer in Test, but I sometimes play one on TV.
  • Tvworks
    Senior Software Developer Consultant
    Tvworks Feb 2011 - Oct 2011
    London, Ontario, Ca
    Java Developer on TVWorks content delivery platform. Developed VMWare integration for test automation, puppet integration , and test framework to streamline integration testing. Extensive use of Maven 3, vi-java, TestNg and TDD. Almost an "Engineer in Test".
  • Blackhawk Network
    Staff Senior Software Engineer
    Blackhawk Network Sep 2010 - Feb 2011
    Pleasanton, California, Us
    Senior Software Engineer on various projects for Blackhawk, specializing in backend transaction processing.Got ISO8583?
  • Blackhawk Network
    Senior Software Engineer Consultant
    Blackhawk Network Jul 2010 - Sep 2010
    Pleasanton, California, Us
    Contract Developer on Blackhawk's Issuance Platform, with emphasis on ISO8583 interfaces, and all backend processing functionality.
  • Problem Solved
    Principal Software Engineer
    Problem Solved Jul 2008 - Aug 2010
    Principal Java Developer for small Credit Union financial services company, working on a small team comprised of 3 developers and 2 testers. Maintained and enhanced j2ee based Instant Issuance Product,Cards On The Spot. Added support for DataCard RP90i flat card printer to Cards On The Spot. Ported Cards On The Spot to Jack Henry Symitar financial system platform. Developed Asterisk/Drools/JBoss based card activation product. Designed and implemented card processor interface to automate card activations to ISO8583 card processors as well as web services. Designed and implemented Courtesy Pay Opt-In product to allow Credit Unions to offer Courtesy Pay to Credit Union Members. Extensive development in JBoss Seam, EJB3, jbossws-cxf, RichFaces and JPA. Developed with Fiserv Pathways. Tirelessly drove adoption of Agile/Scrum. Implemented infrastructure transition to VMWare ESXi. Maintained Windows 2003 domain and network. Provided executive decision support.
  • Procurve Networking By Hp
    Software Engineer
    Procurve Networking By Hp Jun 2004 - Jul 2008
    Security Software engineer developing in java and C/C++. Specializing in RADIUS, and RADIUS server integrations (freeRADIUS, MS IAS, MS NPS/NAP, Funk SBR). Jack of all trades, master of some... Resident linux/OSS advocate. Digester of XML, and man of many integrations at the OS level...
  • Pvbb.Net
    Owner
    Pvbb.Net Oct 2000 - Jul 2005
    Former owner of Fairfield, CA's first WISP, pvbb.net
  • Hp Storage Area Networking
    Software Engineer
    Hp Storage Area Networking Apr 2001 - Jun 2004
    Software Engineer for HP's Storage Division on Storage Area Manager Product. Developed Device Plugins for HP XP Storage Arrays and EMC Symmetrix Storage arrays in java.
  • Hewlett-Packard Openview
    Software Engineer
    Hewlett-Packard Openview 1999 - 2001
    Delphi (yes, Delphi, @HP!...) and C++ developer for HP OpenView Response Time Workbench and MS Exchange SPI for OpenView ITO.
  • Wyndgate Technologies
    Lead Software Engineer
    Wyndgate Technologies Jan 1997 - Jun 1999
    Developed FDA regulated blood transfusion management product in Delphi.Designed/implemented high performance HL7 (Health Level 7) interface. System entered patient blood orders into Wyndgate’s proprietary transfusion management system in real time.Designed/implemented reporting infrastructure using shared Oracle connections to minimize quantity of client licenses required.
  • Michehl & Associates
    Software Engineer
    Michehl & Associates Apr 1995 - Jan 1997
    Designed/implemented web based newspaper-calendaring system. System generated device independent output for newspaper prepress input, as well as HTML and JavaScript Coded in Delphi for NT 4.0/SQL Server 6.5/IIS 3.0.Extensive use of ISAPI, SQL Server and DTS.
  • Apple Computer
    Support Analyst
    Apple Computer Mar 1993 - Apr 1995
    Cupertino, California, Us
    Off hours support analyst. Supported mainframe based applications, ERP system, Aspect phone switch, and many other critical systems.

Brendan O'Bra Skills

Linux Agile Methodologies Java Maven Java Enterprise Edition Scrum Xml Software Development Cloud Computing Software Engineering Web Services Test Driven Development Vmware Integration Continuous Integration Networking Rest Operating Systems Tomcat Scalability Junit Jboss Application Server Mysql Ejb Test Automation Oracle Microsoft Sql Server Hudson Scala Subversion Teamcity Eclipse Testng Puppet Spring Network Administration Network Management Software Snmp Devops Virtualbox Amazon Ec2 Vagrant Tdd J2ee Ejb3 Android Mcollective Hiera Cassandra Activemq

Brendan O'Bra Education Details

  • California State University-Sacramento
    California State University-Sacramento
    Computer Science
  • Albany High School
    Albany High School
    Hooliganism

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