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Brandon Geraci

Brandon Geraci

Senior Software Engineer at OpenTeams. Officially writes software, unofficially whatever else the day needs.

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Posts by Brandon Geraci

bootcArtifact Keeper
Infrastructure

Bare-Metal Rocky Linux Image Mode with Artifact Keeper

Deploy Rocky Linux image mode to bare metal with Artifact Keeper as the single source of truth for RPMs, signed bootc images, keys and Kubernetes workloads.

Brandon Geraci
Brandon Geraci
· 8 min read
Jev136 msLaya21 ms
AI Engineering

Where Does Jev Fit in a Software Supply Chain? We Benchmarked It Against the Open Alternatives

We benchmarked TypeSafe's Jev, Laya, CLM-8B and Claude Haiku on five package-curation triage tasks. A fine-tuned 421M model matched Jev at a tenth of the latency.

Brandon Geraci
Brandon Geraci
· 7 min read
ubi9/ubi803 MB188 packages356 -> 16ubi-micro511 MB22 packages
Python Tooling

pixi on UBI-micro: A Safer, Smaller Multi-Stage Container Build

How a UBI-micro multi-stage build shrinks a pixi container's attack surface and CVE count, with side-by-side Trivy and Grype scans on UBI full, minimal, and micro.

Brandon Geraci
Brandon Geraci
· 12 min read
env recreate, same ML projectuv2.1spixi21.8spoetry86.6smamba104.8spip163.5sconda163.6s
Python Tooling

We Benchmarked 6 Python Package Managers on a Real ML Project. Here's What We Found.

Head-to-head benchmark of pixi, uv, conda, mamba, pip, and poetry on a real ML/AI project with 25+ mixed conda-forge and PyPI dependencies.

Brandon Geraci
Brandon Geraci
· 6 min read