Josef Brandl
Vice President at DWS Group
Mainburg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJosef Brandl is a cloud engineering and architecture leader with 12 years of experience, currently serving as Vice President at DWS Group after leading development at Senacor. He specializes in Google Cloud platforms and infra-as-code with Terraform, designing production-grade systems using GKE, Anthos, IAM, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run and GitHub/GitLab CI. A hands-on polyglot developer, he builds services in TypeScript, Go and Rust, contributes to prominent open-source projects (including Ember.js and Rust futures), and prefers containers and Kubernetes for reliable delivery. Josef’s background from TUM and his open-source work reveal a pragmatic engineer who balances large-scale cloud architecture with careful low-level improvements, such as removing restrictive traits in futures-rs and refining async utilities. Notably, he combines frontend experience (Svelte, Ember, Polymer) with deep cloud networking knowledge—just don’t ask him about Java.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Informatik, Master of Science - MS, Informatik at Technical University of Munich
Github Skills (20)
asynchronous10
javascript10
futures10
async10
es6-promise10
testing10
polymer10
ember-cli10
web-components10
javascript-framework10
emberjs10
ember10
html10
nodejs10
rust10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/futures-rs
Jun 2018 - Jul 2019
Zero-cost asynchronous programming in Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 281 commits, 133 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Josef focused on improving the `futures-rs` library by removing restrictions and making code more concise. They removed an `Unpin` restriction, refactored the code to use `cx.local_waker().wake()` and renamed elements for clarity. They also implemented other improvements, such as renaming a variable and fixing documentation.
asynchronousrustasync-foundations
ember-cli/ember-cli
Nov 2013 - May 2014
The Ember.js command line utility.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:90 commits, 1 comment in 6 months
Contributions summary:Josef primarily contributed to the Ember CLI project by refactoring and enhancing its functionality. They worked on server-side configurations, incorporating features like livereload and handling history support. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to the build process and refactored bower and npm installations, while also addressing project-specific configuration changes. They also focused on improving the build process and file structure, including the renaming of 'skeleton' to 'blueprint'.
command-line-utilityemberjsemberember-clijavascript
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