Brent Beer

Director Global Partner Technical Excellence at GitHub

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

About

Experienced Solutions Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry to help companies transform their software development processes. Additionally, a published author from O'Reilly. Skilled in Computer Science, collaboration best practices, and Ruby on Rails.

Experience

  • GitHub (13 yrs 6 mos)
    • Director Global Partner Technical Excellence
      Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

    • Director of Solutions Engineering
      Dec 2022 - Nov 2024 · 2 yrs

    • Solutions Engineering Manager
      Jul 2021 - Dec 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Helping GitHub's Solution Engineering team in the Central Americas region grow professionally, learn new skills, and help our customers uses GitHub successfully today and in the future.

  • Advisor at Codecov
    Jan 2019 - Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    Helping Codecov scale and mature in the code quality market. Focused on sales solutions engineering and developer relations.

  • Developer at Plum District
    Jun 2011 - Aug 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos

    At Plum District, I primarily focused on back end development of our Ruby on Rails stack. Tasks included bug fixes, day to day task optimization for sales/marketing team, and working on building our API as well as building clients to use it. I primarily focus on Ruby but html/css/javascript are not foreign to me.

  • Developer Intern at GitHub
    Feb 2011 - Apr 2011 · 3 mos

    Assisted with work on GitHub:Firewall Install (later/currently named GitHub:Enterprise)

  • Software Engineering Intern at iList Inc.
    May 2009 - Feb 2010 · 10 mos

    My job varied from day to day from testing our product/game Spymaster to dealing with customers one on one to developing new features. "Many-Hats" kind of job.