# Brooks Townsend > Senior Software Engineer II at Cosmonic Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/brooks Brooks is a Senior Software Engineer II at Cosmonic, focusing on developing a WebAssembly platform to make modern software development less painful, more maintainable, and overall joyful. He focuses on backend development with technologies like Rust and Go, though he is confident with the full stack when engineering a product. He is an open source enthusiast with nearly all of his career focused on contributing and maintaining open source projects. As a frequent speaker of KubeCon / CloudNativeCon, DevOpsDays, Kubernetes Community Days and other conferences he communicates technical information well to audiences of all sizes and experience. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer II @ Cosmonic Jan 2024 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer I @ Cosmonic Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 ### Senior Associate Software Engineer @ Capital One Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | McLean, VA Contributed as a maintainer to wasmCloud, a distributed computing platform and WebAssembly host runtime written in Elixir and Rust, making heavy use of NATS. Developed a comprehensive command line interface and interactive REPL in Rust for wasmCloud development reducing development iteration time from minutes to seconds. Designed unit, integration, and documentation tests for our projects to ensure functionality, completeness, and prevent API drift, along with workflows in GitHub Actions for fully automated build, test, and release of our packages at no cost. Drove product demonstrations at KubeCon NA, KubeCon EU, exploreWasm, Cloud Native Wasm Day, at weekly community meetings, and to prospective customers. Implemented features, bug fixes and upgrades in organizations like wapc and deislabs to improve our product functionality while contributing to the Open Source community. ### Associate Software Engineer @ Capital One Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | McLean, Virginia, United States Improved Kubernetes cluster bootstrap time by 70% with development and implementation of Open Source bootstrapper crit and custom cloud-init bash userdata. Architected terraform configurations for declarative, automated initialization of Kubernetes clusters into AWS using services such as ELB, EC2, S3, Route53, VPC, IAM. Remediated over 50 CIS Benchmark controls in Kubernetes clusters and implemented automatic scanning for continuous security compliance. ### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ UNC Department of Computer Science Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Chapel Hill, NC Collaborate with a team of 50+ Teaching Assistants and a Professor to design a course for 900+ students from diverse backgrounds. Tutor students one-on-one to explain technical concepts to prospective majors, minors, as well as non-technical students. Confer with special teams to create problem sets, formulate topic write-ups for students, and lead review sessions. ### Technology Internship Program @ Capital One Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Richmond, Virginia Area Overhauled the letter template onboarding process for case management from queries to a web application, reducing onboarding time from 5+ minutes to under 10 seconds. Containerized front and back ends with Docker, managed dependencies with Apache Maven, and implemented automated testing with Jenkins, Mockito and Apache JMeter. ### Software Development Intern @ SentryOne Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Huntersville, North Carolina Rearchitected an existing Swift application on the front and back end to fix memory leaks, user interface errors and monolithic classes. Engaged in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, grooming and retrospectives to maintain parity between Apple iOS and Android teams. ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 ### High School Diploma in General Studies William Amos Hough High School Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brooks-townsend - GitHub: https://github.com/brooksmtownsend --- Source: https://flows.cv/brooks JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/brooks/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22