Bret Comnes

Not responding to recruiters at the moment, sorry 😦

Professional & amateur computer programmer specializing in software engineering, DevOps and modular open source Javascript and Go, with an interest in product development and team building, P2P and cryptography.

• portfolio: bret.io
• email: bcomnes at gmail dot com
• location: 🌎 US Remote 🤳
• github: github.com/bcomnes
• npm: npmjs.com/~bret
• linkedin: linkedin.com/in/bcomnes

Socket Supply Co. Consultant • 2023 - Present

• Contributing to the ssc runtime and p2p protocol enabling true write once, run anywhere apps using JS, CSS and HTML. (JS, C++)
• Developing Socket Supply’s flagship deployment product and testing tool.

Socket Inc Software Engineer • 2021 - 2023

• Developed Socket.dev’s GitHub App, a primary driver of sales and platform adoption.
• Business intelligence, data pipelines and analysis.

Rainbow Software Engineer • 2021

• Working on Rainbow, the #1 Etherium wallet of all time. (React Native)

Littlstar + Rad.live

Principal Engineer • 2021

• Design and implment NFT minting and auction platform in ~10 weeks.
• See Littlstar portfilio for more info.

Senior Software Engineer • 2019 - 2021

• Developing next gen IAC and delivery pipelines with Terraform and Github Actions deployed to AWS.
• Develop Little Core Labs peer to peer content delivery system.
• Implement a rebrand of Littlstar to Rad.live.
• Design and reboot product website using next.js and swr.
• Designed and implemented an organizational microservice pattern.
• Develop centralized JWT authorization strategy for all services.

Hyperdivision Software Engineer • 2019 🇩🇰

• Leading development on Heimdall, a cryptographically secure, p2p ledger and proposal system used to securely manage cryptographic assets used for cryptocurrency exchange asset management and other financial technologies.
• Electron application development using a custom frontend framework.
• VHS-Tape: frontend component unit testing with async/await.
• Cryptographic focused native Node.js module development (prebuildify, libsodium).
• Webassembly module development (wat2js)

Netlify

Platform Engineering • 2018 - 2019

• Joined Netlify’s DevOps focused platform team.
• Maintain and develop Netlify’s CI build environment, built with Docker, Go, Jenkins and Kubernetes.
• Launch Netlify’s selectable build-image infrastructure and interface.
• Develop and maintain Netlify’s Open-api Go client, and architect and rewrite the Javascript client.
• 24h on-call duties
• Monitor and maintain the health of Netlify’s multi-cloud infrastructure using Humio and Datadog.
• Scale and deploy infrastructure with GitOps via Ansible, bash and Terraform.
• See Netlify portfolio for more examples.

Product Engineering • 2017 - 2018

• Plan, design, implement, test and iterate on new features for Netlify’s React based webapp.
• Support, maintain, test and release Netlify’s open source JS and Go libraries.
• Architect and build Netlify’s next generation, extensible CLI.
• See Netlify portfolio for more examples.

ZHealth Electron Developer • 2016 - 2017

• Developing next generation structured documentation EtchCV suite for Cardiac Surgeons and Hospitals.
• API and microservice design + implementation.
• Cross Platform Desktop software using Electron, HTML, CSS and SVG powered by React + Redux.
• Modular development using github, npm and continuous delivery using TravisCI, Appveyor and S3/AWS.

Jaguar Land Rover OS & Application Engineering • 2015 - 2016

• Mobile app, infotainment and OS development using JS + Node.js, HTML and CSS.
• Targed in-vehicle embeded systems fully utlizing the onboard can bus.
• Architected a single sign-on service and documentation server for internal documents and project planning using Express.js.

Airship Technical Support Engineer • 2015

• Support developers implementing with Urban Airships SDK.
• Developed a specialized customer analytic and messaging system.

Portland State University

Office of Information Technology ARC HPC Operations & Python Development • 2013 - 2015

• Web applications and systems programming with Python and Django.
• Developed custom database monitoring tools that tracked MySQL and Postgres usage metrics
• Responsible for building, automating and monitoring PSU’s research servers and HPC Linux Clusters.
• Initiated efforts to automate cluster deployment and management using Ansible.
• Trained and introduced new users to ARC’s resources and shared unix computing environments.

Sánchez Nano Development Lab Research Assistant • 2013 - 2015

• Wrote custom control software and a web application that enabled remote viewing and operation of a Scanning Electron Microscope over the Internet using React, Web Sockets and WebRTC.

PSU Physics Department Lab Instructor & TA • 2012 - 2014

• Instructed PSU’s General Physics Labs and assisted in the upper division Experimental Physics Labs.
• Developed two novel labs on the use of micro-controllers and FPGAs covering basic concepts to advanced topics like PID control theory.
• Teaching introductory electronics and debugging skills to students.

Wiley Textbook Development Consultant • 2012

• Developed interactive figures and demos for an interactive Calculus textbook published by Wiley Publishing.

HSU Gravitational Research Laboratory Research Assistant • 2009 - 2011

• Designed and machined custom experimental instruments and developed the lab’s data collection, automation and analysis software to study the gravitational inverse-square law at sub-millimeter distance scales.

National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center Arecibo Guest Researcher • 2009

• Trained and operated the worlds largest radio telescope and analyzed the collected data searching for previously undiscovered galaxies.

Education

• Humboldt State University B.S. Physics 2011
• Portland State University M.S. Applied Physics 2015 (Completed coursework, no diploma)

Media

• Socket - Github App Improvements 2022-07-26
• JS Party – Episode #227: JS logging & error handling 2022-05-27
• JS Party – Episode #219: Making moves on supply chain security 2022-03-24
• Netlify Blog: A more flexible build architecture with updated Linux 2019-03-14
• Netlify Blog: Fearless deploys for your lingering processes 2018-11-28
• Netlify Blog: Netlify CLI 2.0 now in Beta 🎉 2018-09-10
• Netlify Blog: Buy and secure a custom domain through Netlify 2018-06-19
• Netlify Blog: Netlify now shows your deploy status on its favicon 2018-05-22
• Netlify Blog: Introducing Site Dashboards 2017-08-22
• Netlify Blog: Introducing Audit Log 2017-07-27

Community

• Datcast Podcast (2018 - 2019)
• PDX Node Organizer Meetup (2015 - 2017)
• Node School Organizer & Mentor (2016)
• Code for Portland Organizer & Mentor • Open Civic Data Initiative (2014 - 2015)
• Small Modules Talk Internal Presentation (2014)
• WebRTC Camp Speaker (2013)
• Indieweb Camp Organizer & Mentor (2012 - 2014)