Brendan Almonte
Principal Software Engineer, Developer Platform
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Almonte is a Principal Software Engineer and developer-platform leader based in Seattle with 16 years building resilient, scalable systems across companies like Remitly and Zillow. He brings deep multi-language expertise (Java, C#, Python, Go) and hands-on experience with distributed systems, observability, DevOps pipelines, and storage management, having led platform and developer-experience teams. Brendan has practical expertise with containerization, CI/CD, and infrastructure tooling (Docker, Jenkins, Corosync/Pacemaker, VMware) and a strong background in databases and enterprise storage from his Hitachi/EMC years. He combines technical leadership with day-to-day engineering—designing recoverable systems, automating deployments, and mentoring teams to improve developer productivity. A pragmatic problem-solver, he often bridges legacy enterprise storage concerns with modern cloud-native practices to accelerate delivery.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science at Wentworth Institute of Technology
Github Skills (72)
python10
terraform10
automation10
terraform-module10
ssh10
ansible10
kubernetes10
go10
aws10
logging10
logrus10
network-configuration9
dynamodb9
statsd9
azure8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
almonteb/DroidSync
Mar 2010 - Jun 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 5 years 3 months
phoneandroid-phoneandroiditunesplaylists
almonteb/dotfiles
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:29 commits, 27 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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