Brendan Smith
CTE Engineering Teacher at Waimea High School
Kalaheo, Hawaii, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Smith is an EECS-trained engineer with 11 years of experience blending production software work and hands-on STEM education; he moved from contributing to Cloud Foundry's CLI and documentation to designing a project-based high school engineering pathway in Hawaii. He brings practical DevOps and back-end skills—writing integration tests, refactoring CLI tooling, and improving technical docs—alongside classroom experience building robotics, 3D printing and renewable energy curricula. Comfortable in diverse cultural settings and studying Japanese, he combines cross-cultural communication with a desire to work with Japan on engineering projects. Brendan seeks to transition into Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps roles where he can deepen his production-systems expertise while mentoring and learning within collaborative teams.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), EECS, Bachelor of Science (BS), EECS at University of California, BerkeleyKAI Japanese Language School
Github Skills (7)
go10
cloud-foundry10
documentation10
cli10
testing10
cicd9
ruby8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cli
Feb 2019 - Feb 2020
The official command line client for Cloud Foundry
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 172 commits, 6 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Brendan primarily contributed to the development and testing of the Cloud Foundry CLI, focusing on improving the codebase and adding new functionalities. The contributions involved refactoring existing code, such as moving functionalities to helper functions and adding new integration tests. The user's work also included adding a new flag option and creating integration tests for the login command, demonstrating their understanding of the CLI's functionality and the importance of testing.
cloud-foundrycommand-lineclicloud-foundry-clicf-cli
cloudfoundry/cloud_controller_ng
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Brendan's contributions primarily involve updating and improving documentation within the Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller repository. They made changes to the documentation to standardize roles and alphabetize them, and also added deprecation warnings and better links to various v2 deprecation notices. Additionally, the user corrected documentation in resources, enhancing clarity and accuracy for users.
cloud-foundrycloudfoundryruby
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