Brandon Wagner



👋 Hello! I'm a Software Engineer.

Some things I'm interested in:

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

I worked on Karpenter, a K8s node autoscaler. It's pretty neat. Here are some talks I've given about Karpenter:

  • Scaling K8s Nodes Without Breaking the Bank or Your Sanity - KubeCon EU 2022 | video | slides | Write Up
  • 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 EC2 team. I have previously worked on Route 53, EKS, and AWS Marketplace.

Before AWS...

  • 2016-2017: Consumer video startup that never quite launched... (still the most fun job) 📽️
  • 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.