Brie Carranza: Engineer, Developer, Advocate

I love reconciling the gap between "how it’s supposed to work" and "how it’s actually working" and leveraging first principles, educated guesses, and a bit of fun to help teams understand, build, and support better systems.

Learn more /about me.

Speaking & Influence

Advocating technical and professional excellence that scales through educational talks, interviews, and community engagement.

Developer Delight

Creating tools and resources that make developers smile and work more efficiently.

HTTP Cats

A public resource providing a humorous, visual API for HTTP status codes.

Read the introductory blog post →

pastebin-bisque

A robust command-line tool simplifying interactions with Pastebin.

PyPI GitHub

pipeglow

A CLI tool for interacting with GitLab CI/CD pipelines efficiently.

PyPI GitLab

Education

Reducing friction for developers by breaking down complex tools into actionable insights.

  • Troubleshooting like Batman

    A written version of my talk introducing general purpose troubleshooting principles.

  • Using gron to grep JSON

    A practical guide to transforming JSON into greppable text, saving hours of debugging or wrangling with jq.

  • troubleshooting.party

    An in-progress collection of articles, tools and resources for systems troubleshooting.

Curation

Maintaining awesome lists to help developers find the best resources on specific topics quickly.