# Brandon Bjelland

> Platform and agentic engineering leader. Notes on software factories, agentic development, and platform engineering.

Personal site of Brandon Bjelland, based in St Paul, Minnesota. Every page below is available as plain
Markdown. Contact: brandonjbjelland@gmail.com.

## Core pages

- [About](https://brandonbjelland.com/about.md): Background, how I work, and how to get in touch
- [Resume](https://brandonbjelland.com/resume.md): Full public resume (also as JSON: https://brandonbjelland.com/resume.json)

## Projects

- [terraform-aws-eks and terraform-aws-alb](https://brandonbjelland.com/projects/terraform-aws-modules.md): Original author of the community Terraform modules for EKS and ALB on AWS. 250M+ combined downloads, and still among their top all-time contributors.
- [CELLARS](https://brandonbjelland.com/projects/cellars.md): A cellular infrastructure model where each geo-bound cell inherits its compliance controls from the platform, turning a new sovereign region from months of bespoke work into weeks.
- [HERBS](https://brandonbjelland.com/projects/herbs.md): A GitOps deployment framework (ArgoCD, CUE, Helm) giving 12 product teams one way to ship to any cell. ~500 rollouts, zero production outages on platform-owned systems.
- [Network-as-code OpenTofu providers](https://brandonbjelland.com/projects/network-as-code-providers.md): Internal OpenTofu/Terraform providers that turned corporate networking, firewall, and load balancer changes from manual tickets and click-ops into self-service code for every team.
- [Claude Code in the merge request loop](https://brandonbjelland.com/projects/claude-code-ci.md): Reusable CI/CD components that put Claude Code to work on every merge request (review, conflict resolution, CI failure fixes, changelogs, and blast-radius analysis), rolled out group-wide.
- [PASTA and sauce](https://brandonbjelland.com/projects/pasta-and-sauce.md): Protect AI's tenant automation. PASTA provisioned dedicated single-tenant AWS infrastructure; sauce added tenant provisioning on shared clusters for 100+ customers.
- [Run at Scale](https://brandonbjelland.com/projects/run-at-scale.md): Six years as an independent consultant, five of them embedded in Google Professional Services on large GCP deployments carrying billions in spend commitments.
- [Substratus](https://brandonbjelland.com/projects/substratus.md): An open-source MLOps platform for orchestrating ML primitives (models, datasets, notebooks, servers) on Kubernetes.
- [nagios_commander](https://brandonbjelland.com/projects/nagios-commander.md): A small Bash wrapper around the Nagios API that made scripted downtime and acknowledgements painless.

## Blog

- [Hello, world](https://brandonbjelland.com/blog/hello-world.md): Why I’m starting this site and what I plan to write about.

## Optional

- [Everything in one file](https://brandonbjelland.com/llms-full.txt): All of the above concatenated
- [RSS feed](https://brandonbjelland.com/rss.xml)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/brandonjbjelland)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonjbjelland/)