Brandon Kunkel

About Brandon Kunkel

Hi! I am Aerospace Engineer turned Software Engineer. I have a unique blend of depth and breadth in AI/ML, product, and infrastructure across the whole development lifecycle.I started my career in AI/ML at Psibernetix where we pioneered an AI technique called the Genetic Fuzzy Tree to build multi-agent systems with reinforcement learning. But 4 years into my software career I decided to branch out to round out my skills in frontend, backend, distributed systems and cloud technologies so that I could become a more complete engineer. In my 7 years at 4 startups, I have seen promotions, product launches, an acquisition, layoffs and a company closure. These experiences helped me to become resilient and gave me opportunities to make mistakes, solve difficult problems, and make products that users love. I am eager to continue learning, honing my skills and make an impact in the industry. Please contact me if you have any opportunities that are a match for my skill set.Let\'s do great things together!

Experience

1. Site Reliability Engineer

   ujet.cx

   Apr 2024 — Present

   Migrated Jenkins and GitHub-hosted runners to auto-scaling self-hosted Github Actions runners, reducing CI infra spend by 8k USD/month and reducing Docker image build speed by up to 93% with cloud-based caching- Owned and rolled out Kubernetes cluster manager using ArgoCD, Terraform, ConfigConnector, Helm, Kustomize to deploy applications such Traefik, DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana across our cluster fleet- Developed Internal Developer Platform with Port, GitHub Actions and Kubernetes, ArgoWorkflows to automate workflows within the SDLC process, specifically testing and releases- Owned migration of production environments from AWS to GCP with minimal, planned downtime- Improved processes and trained engineers for oncall rotation for Google CCaaS OEM product partnership.

Education

• University of Cincinnati

  Bachelor’s Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering

  2012 — 2017

• Mentor High School

  High School, Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program

  2008 — 2012

Skills

• C
• Microsoft Office
• Html
• Php
• Ansys
• Solidworks
• Genetic Algorithms
• Labview
• Matlab
• Rapid Prototyping
• C++
• Unigraphics
• Optical Engineering
• Research and Development (R&D)
• Femap
• Fuzzy Logic
• Interferometry
• Linux
• Machine Learning
• Opencl
• Opencv
• Public Speaking
• Finite Element Analysis
• Python
• Engineering
• Cuda
• Research
• Aerospace Engineering
• Nx Unigraphics
• Femap Api
• Object-Oriented Programming (Oop)
• Testing
• Nastran