Frank Brenyah / Platform Engineer · CTO · Adventurer
About

Frank Brenyah.

Platform engineer. Co-Founder & CTO at Wandr Health. Southwest overlander. Building reliable systems on the weekday, navigating canyon country on weekends.

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Frank Brenyah smiling with a peace sign, wearing an orange and black plaid shirt, city skyline visible through a window
Fetch office, Chicago

I am a platform engineer and CTO who gets a kick out of shipping real systems, not just slides. Family is important to me, and it shapes how I show up at work: I would rather ship a working prototype than polish a brilliant design that never leaves the deck. This page is a personal introduction to my contacts, both professional and personal. The same through-line you will see on the home page: build, explore, repeat.

Early years

Stripes, crest, and a Garfield backpack.

I was born in Ghana. School picture energy from day one. It is a reminder that curiosity and a little humor have been part of the deal for a long time—long before the first terminal prompt.

Childhood school portrait in a blue striped shirt and navy shorts, Garfield backpack at feet, studio backdrop
Formal photo, not-so-formal accessories.
Education
Graduation portrait in a grey suit, holding a mortarboard, black stole with Ghana flag colors and university text
One milestone, placed at the end of a grueling journey.

The classroom mattered. So did everything after.

I graduated from the University of La Verne in California. My parents invested in my education—deeply—and that gift still frames how I work and what I owe the next generation. Graduation with stole and colors that nod to Ghana and to where my family is from. Family is important to me; the formal phase set the foundation, and first jobs, late nights, and production incidents did the rest—learning that delivery beats debate, every time.

Engineering

Reliable infrastructure. Clear ownership.

I have worked at leading companies in their best times—Media Temple, Limelight, Fetch, and KUBRA—before co-founding Wandr. Certs mark seasons where I doubled down on fundamentals. A working prototype beats brilliant design when the design never ships. Linux at the desk, cloud at the booth—both earned, not just listed.

Frank at a desk with headphones and mechanical keyboard, Linux Professional Institute certificates on the wall, soccer ball at side
Early Wandr days, with my emotional support ball
Frank holding an AWS Certified hex sign in front of a matching neon AWS Certified backdrop
Celebrating my cert, the colorful way. AWS re:Invent 2024.
Trail days

High desert, red rock, and silence you cannot beat.

When work is done, it's done. A balance of work and play is important to me, so I often disconnect emails and social media when the weekend comes. The Discovery is part daily driver, part weekend escape hatch—high desert, red rock, minimal kit—helping me disconnect.

More on the build (tires, sleep setup, philosophy) lives on the overlanding rig page.

Frank standing beside a red Land Rover Discovery with trail stickers, rocky desert mountain and clear sky behind
Parking-lot pause at Hoover Dam, Nevada.
Resume

Professional background

This mirrors my latest résumé on file (2025), reformatted for the site. Roles and certifications follow. For the narrative and what I am doing now, read the sections above—or LinkedIn for the running timeline.

Qualifications

  • AWS services
  • Go
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • Troubleshooting
  • Monitoring & observability
  • Incident management
  • Containerization
  • Linux
  • Shell scripting
  • Docker
  • Bitbucket & GitHub
  • PHP
  • Java
  • Swift
  • Grafana
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Cursor
  • Sonnet 3.5+
  • Opus 4.6+

Experience

Platform Engineer Apr 2025 – Present

KUBRA · full-time

  • Engineering a platform that streamlines developer workflows
Senior Site Reliability Engineer Aug 2021 – Feb 2025

Fetch, Inc. · Phoenix, AZ

  • Engineered internal service catalog using Python and Kubernetes.
  • Designed L1 support orchestration with PagerDuty, using Go and Terraform.
  • Built internal Slack-based incident management tooling with Go, Postgres, and Redis.
  • Constructed service support evaluation tooling with Go and Kubernetes.
  • Developed off-device performance metrics collection using Go.
  • Performed alert triage for business-critical services during on-call with PagerDuty.
  • Developed monitoring panels in Grafana using datasources such as Prometheus.
Operations Engineer Jul 2019 – Aug 2021

Edgio (formerly Limelight Networks Inc.) · Phoenix, AZ

  • Level 3 support to NetOps, SysOps, software, and sales teams.
  • Actioned Linux server and router infrastructure alerts from the network team.
  • Configured and managed business-critical Linux-based streaming infrastructure.
  • Designed and implemented solutions for Linux server infrastructure as needed.
  • Performed traffic engineering on delivery and streaming networks.
Senior Support Agent May 2016 – Jul 2019

Media Temple, Inc. (GoDaddy company) · Culver City, CA

  • Diagnosed and resolved issues with website-building platforms, including WordPress.
  • Linux server configuration and troubleshooting for web hosting operations.
  • Advised clients on best practices for web hosting and Linux-based operations.
  • Guided fellow agents toward strong solutions for customer-submitted issues.
Android Developer May 2012 – Jul 2018

Independent · La Verne, CA

Instructor, Android development Jan 2016 – May 2016

New Designs Charter School (NDCS) · Los Angeles, CA

Support technician, Blackboard support desk Aug 2013 – May 2015

University of La Verne · La Verne, CA

Education & certifications

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner · November 2024 · Amazon Web Services
  • LPIC-1: Linux Administrator · May 2021 · Linux Professional Institute
  • LE-1: Linux Essentials · March 2019 · Linux Professional Institute
  • B.S., Computer Science & Computer Engineering · May 2015 · University of La Verne, La Verne, CA
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