Greg Brockman
IT Support Technician at Acara Solutions
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Brockman is an experienced IT support technician and versatile software engineer with over 15 years delivering network administration, server virtualization, and application support across hospitality, healthcare, and enterprise environments. He combines hands-on infrastructure skills—Juniper/Cisco, Windows Server/AD, VSphere/VMware—with a history of software development in C++, C#, VB.Net and web technologies, and has shipped practical tooling that saved teams millions early in his career. Greg is an active open-source contributor to prominent projects like Stripe SDKs and OpenAI's gym/universe, where he strengthened backend reliability and compatibility across languages. Comfortable moving between help-desk system design, large-scale network operations, and web/UX work through his BrockBuster studios, he’s known for pragmatic solutions and improving operational efficiency. Based in San Francisco, he also brings classroom teaching experience and a knack for translating complex technical concepts into user-focused documentation and training.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Undergrad CS, F# Programming, .Net Framework, 4.0, Undergrad CS, F# Programming, .Net Framework, 4.0 at De Anza CollegeBSCS, Computer Science/Spanish, 3.2, BSCS, Computer Science/Spanish, 3.2 at Grand Canyon UniversityCA Single Subject Teachers Credential, Special Education and Teaching, CA Single Subject Teachers Credential, Special Education and Teaching at Notre Dame de NamurUniversity of California Santa CruzDiploma, Mathematics, 3.8, Diploma, Mathematics, 3.8 at Yuma High School
Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (41)
socket-io10
dependency-management10
messaging10
python10
apidoc10
stripe10
amqp10
mq10
reinforcement-learning10
ruby10
rabbitmq10
api-documentation10
php10
amq10
socket10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
openai/universe
Dec 2016 - Apr 2018
Universe: a software platform for measuring and training an AI's general intelligence across the world's supply of games, websites and other applications.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 11 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily focused on maintaining and improving the backend components of the project. Their contributions include adding documentation, fixing dependencies, and addressing bugs related to environment configurations. They also made adjustments to the core logic, such as adding episode IDs to environments and refining connection details. Furthermore, the user updated dependencies and deprecated components.
ai
openai/gym
Apr 2016 - Jan 2019
A toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:280 commits, 154 PRs, 348 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily focused on enhancing the scoring functionality within the `openai/gym` repository, specifically in the `gym/scoreboard` directory. Their contributions included adding and modifying timestamp metrics for duration calculations, ensuring proper handling of entries without initial reset timestamps, and improving the overall scoring logic. The user also worked on improving file handling and data loading processes.
reinforcement-learning
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