Brandon Wagner



👋 Hello! I'm a Software Engineer and this is where I post about random things related to software or anything else I care about.

Some things I'm interested in:

  • Coffee ☕️
  • Cloud ☁️
  • Kubernetes 🐳
  • Karpenter 🔨
  • Go 👨‍💻
  • Lifting Heavy Things 🏋️‍♀️
  • Audio Gear 🔈

I write code on Github here: https://github.com/bwagner5

I work on Karpenter, a K8s node autoscaler.

Some talks I've done about Karpenter:

  • Scaling K8s Nodes Without Breaking the Bank or Your Sanity - KubeCon EU 2022 | video | slides
  • CMP-405 Running Efficient Kubernetes Clusters on Amazon EC2 with Karpenter - AWS Reinvent 2022 | slides
  • CMP-328 Optimize Amazon EKS Workloads: Spot Instance, Karpenter, and Graviton - AWS Reinvent 2023 | slides
  • Kubernetes Node Autoscaling - Cloud Austin Meetup | slides

I currently work at AWS on the Route 53 team. I have previously worked on EC2, EKS, and AWS Marketplace at AWS.

Before AWS...

  • 2016-2017: Consumer video startup that never quite launched...
  • 2015-2016: AOL in the Security department working on DevOps tooling
  • 2013-2016: Triple Tech working on nuclear power plant fire protection software

I went to George Mason University for both undergrad and grad school. I have a bachelor's in Computer Science and a Master's in Computer Science with an emphasis on Security.