Projects

Gruntwork

https://www.gruntwork.io

I'm the co-founder of Gruntwork, a company that that offers products & services for setting up world-class DevOps Foundations. Our mission is to make it 10x easier to understand, develop, and deploy software. We take care of all the "undifferentiated heavy lifting"—the grunt work—so that your team can focus on the products and services unique to your company.

Atomic Squirrel

https://www.atomic-squirrel.net

In 2015, I founded Atomic Squirrel, a company that specialized in helping new startups get off the ground. In 2016, Atomic Squirrel merged with another company called Phoenix DevOps to become Gruntwork.

Terragrunt

https://github.com/gruntwork-io/terragrunt

Terragrunt is a popular open source tool that wraps Terraform to provide extra tools for working with multiple Terraform modules and keeping your code DRY.

Terratest

https://github.com/gruntwork-io/terratest

Terratest is a popular open source Go library for testing infrastructure code that includes tools for testing Terraform, Packer, Docker, AWS, and much more.

Ping-Play: BigPipe Streaming for the Play Framework

https://github.com/brikis98/ping-play

An open source project that brings BigPipe streaming to the Play Framework. It includes tools for a) splitting your pages up into small "pagelets", which makes it easier to maintain large websites, and b) streaming those pagelets down to the browser as soon as they are ready, which can significantly reduce page load time.

Yevgeniy Brikman Homepage

https://github.com/brikis98/yevgeniy-brikman-homepage

I built all the pages you're looking at now using Jekyll, GitHub Pages, and Basscss.

Play Framework at LinkedIn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z3h4Uv9YbE

I led the project that brought the Play Framework to LinkedIn. Play is a modern web framework that combines the performance and reliability of Java and Scala, the power of reactive programming, and the productivity of full hot reload support.

LinkedIn Incubator

http://www.wired.com/2012/12/llinkedin-20-percent-time/

I launched a program at LinkedIn that allows any employee to come up with an idea, form a team around it, and present it to the execs. If the execs approve it, the team gets 3 months of dedicated time to bring the project to life.

LinkedIn Hackdays

http://hackday.linkedin.com/

I ran LinkedIn's internal and external hackday program. A hackday is an event where you get 24 hours to come up with ideas, form teams, and build rapid prototypes (hacks) as a proof of concept. I helped organize LinkedIn's public Intern Hackday, DevelopHer Hackday, and Veterans Hackday events, and built all the interactive information and registration pages.

LinkedIn Engineering Blog

http://engineering.linkedin.com/

I created the LinkedIn Engineering Blog as a place for LinkedIn developers to talk about their work and grew the site to many thousands of page views per day.