Brett Jenkins

builds services by day, automates the house by night

I build services end to end: the code, the infrastructure it runs on, and the library the front end uses to talk to it.

Outside work, a small software studio and a house that mostly runs itself.

Happy where I am. Always happy to talk.

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A brief timeline

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  1. 2010 – 2011

    First job. Client sites for Thomas Cook, Quanticate and Celtic Manor, in the run-up to the Ryder Cup.

  2. 2011 – 2016

    Zengenti. Shared ownership of CI, moved everyone to Git, and made build status glow in Hue bulbs.

  3. 2016 – 2021

    ClearLife. Pitched and built the whole AWS deploy pipeline, plus an incident bot for Teams.

  4. 2021 – now

    Brafton. Backend services on Lambda, the Terraform under them, and agents for our users since 2023.

Also: a Kubernetes cluster that runs the house, and a medication schedule for the cats.

The seemy.beer tap sign showing a made-up beer, Homelab Helles, 4.8% ABV, with the keg level and serving temperature
on the side

TidyLabs

A one-person software studio. Its main product, seemy.beer, is a live tap sign for PerfectDraft beer machines.

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