Brett Hoerner

Current

• Developer at DISQUS

Past

• Senior Developer at Pegasus News
• System Administrator at Texas Instruments

Education

• The University of Texas at Dallas

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Industry

Computer Software

Brett Hoerner’s Summary

Web application developer interested in dynamic languages, concurrency, scaling, and infrastructure. Always interested in products that will be used by many people, and / or a possibility to change the world.

Brett Hoerner’s Specialties:

Python, Django, memcached, webservers and proxies (Apache, lighttpd, nginx, Perlbal, haxproxy), Linux, Unix, system administration, scaling, subversion, git

Brett Hoerner’s Experience

• Developer

  DISQUS

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  August 2009 — Present (5 months)

• Senior Developer

  Pegasus News

  (Partnership; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

  December 2005 — October 2008 (2 years 11 months)

  Python web developer and system administrator. Used Django, Linux (Ubuntu Server), PostgreSQL, PostGIS, memcached, Apache, Perlbal, lighttpd and much more.

• System Administrator

  Texas Instruments

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TXN; Semiconductors industry)

  May 2006 — September 2006 (5 months)

  RedHat Linux system administrator in the Big Tex II datacenter.

Brett Hoerner’s Education

• The University of Texas at Dallas

  BS CS , Computer Science , 2002 — 2006

Additional Information

Brett Hoerner’s Honors:

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), 2006

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