Tyler Brekke
Senior Engineer at DigitalOcean
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Brekke is a Senior Engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in storage and cloud infrastructure, currently building at DigitalOcean after a long tenure at Red Hat where he served as Storage Architect and Senior Storage Consultant. He brings deep operational expertise in distributed storage systems from hands-on roles at Inktank and early support experience at DreamHost, blending engineering, consulting, and production support. Based in Sacramento, he excels at translating complex storage requirements into resilient, scalable solutions and has a proven track record helping large customers deploy enterprise storage at scale. Tyler’s background in computer science and years spent at storage-focused companies suggest a strong grounding in both open-source storage technologies and real-world operational constraints.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at California State University-Long Beach
Github Skills (43)
windows10
storage10
linux10
lua10
nfs9
fuse9
dance9
searching9
cloud-storage9
posix9
high-performance9
replication9
scanning9
distributed-file-system8
ceph8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
concubidated/JavaRisk
Dec 2011 - Jun 2012
Contributions:8 commits in 7 months
concubidated/ceph
Feb 2015 - Jun 2025
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 6 months
file-storagecephdatabasestoragedistributed
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