Kason Braley
About Kason Braley
Kason Braley is a Software Developer with experience in various roles, including positions at the US Navy and Nuspire. He specializes in observability standards, CI/CD pipelines, and application performance monitoring.
Work at Nuspire
Kason Braley has been employed as a Software Developer at Nuspire since 2022. In this role, he contributes to the development and maintenance of software solutions, focusing on enhancing system performance and reliability. His responsibilities include implementing application-level metrics, traces, and logging standards across various codebases, which improves application performance monitoring. Kason also maintains stable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Terraform, ensuring automated code quality checks and seamless application deployments.
Previous Experience in Software Development
Prior to his current position, Kason Braley worked at NetFire as a Software Developer for four months in 2021. His experience also includes a role as a Junior IT Administrator at Pioneer Title Agency from 2019 to 2021, where he gained valuable insights into IT operations and support. His background in software development is complemented by his experience in fostering a culture of unit and integration testing, which enhances the reliability of software deployments.
Military Background as Avionics Technician
Kason Braley served in the US Navy as an Avionics Technician from 2015 to 2019. During his four years of service in Lemoore, California, he developed technical skills and a strong understanding of electronic systems. This experience provided him with a foundation in technical problem-solving and teamwork, which he has carried into his subsequent roles in software development.
Education and Certification
Kason Braley studied at Code Fellows, where he completed a program in Advanced Software Development in Full-Stack JavaScript. He achieved certification in 2021 after five months of intensive training. This education equipped him with the necessary skills to excel in software development and contribute effectively to his roles in the tech industry.
Technical Contributions and Innovations
In his professional career, Kason Braley has made significant contributions to software observability and monitoring. He pioneered the adoption of technologies such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, and AWS CloudWatch to establish observability standards. Additionally, he architected a reporting engine that aggregates data from multiple sources, including Postgres, Cassandra, Redis, and Trino, which enhances client security posture visibility.