Summary
Brandon Willett is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of experience building and operating large-scale, cloud-native systems across companies like Graphite, Doist, Datadog, and ActionIQ. He specializes in migrating complex services to Kubernetes, improving observability and autoscaling for distributed workloads, and delivering pragmatic 80/20 solutions that unlock long-term engineering velocity. At Datadog he led cross-org initiatives and zero-outage migrations of critical infrastructure, and at ActionIQ he improved Spark-based query execution and contributed improvements back to open-source job scheduling. With dual degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Rochester, he pairs strong quantitative instincts with hands-on systems craftsmanship. Outside work he avidly follows space and technology innovation—a reflection of his continual appetite for learning and big-picture problem solving.
10 years of coding experience