Brandon Nelson
Senior Engineering Manager at Cloudflare
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Nelson is a Senior Engineering Manager in the Portland area with nine years of experience evolving from full-stack and DevOps engineer to people-first technical leader at Cloudflare. He has led cross-functional teams across Partners Engineering and Identity & Access Management, driving roadmaps, prioritization, and architectural decisions while remaining hands-on with APIs, event-driven systems, and internal UIs. His background spans building Go microservices, Kubernetes platforms, and CI/CD pipelines—skills forged refactoring legacy PHP systems and introducing PaaS capabilities at scale. Known for clear technical prose and mentorship, he balances operational and security concerns to deliver high-availability services. Outside work he’s an avid hiker and pickleball player, a detail that mirrors his focus on endurance and strategic play in engineering leadership.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Sciences and Technology, BS, Information Sciences and Technology at The Pennsylvania State University
English
Github Skills (36)
markdown10
cloudflare10
mdx10
go-kit9
go8
multiplayer7
kubernetes7
wordpress7
docker7
ableton-live5
helm5
deployer5
docker-image5
charts5
udp4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bnelz/gokit-base
May 2017 - Jan 2021
Go-kit boilerplate and introductory repository
Contributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 8 months
go-kit
bnelz/Multiplayer
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Zetrith's Multiplayer mod for RimWorld
Contributions:15 commits, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 4 days
multiplayer
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