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Brendan Creane

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Engineering Manager at Tailscale
📍 El Cerrito, California, United States

Brendan Creane is a Systems & Infrastructure Engineering Executive at Tailscale, specializing in scaling distributed teams and building zero-trust network infrastructure. He is a published author on Kubernetes and holds a B.S. from UC Santa Barbara. People often describe him as technically strong, supportive, and an exceptional leader.

Outside of his direct management roles, Brendan volunteers as an engineering coach and mentor, helping others grow their careers. He maintains a hands-on approach to technology, showing a keen interest in exploring emerging challenges like AI prompt injection attacks.

Unique fact: He successfully scaled a remote engineering organization by over 8x, from 6 to more than 50 engineers across North America and Europe.

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Experience
37 Years
Current Role
Engineering Manager
Job Level
Middle
Location
El Cerrito, California, United States
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Kubernetes Security
Co-authored the O'Reilly book "Kubernetes Security and Observability," establishing him as a subject matter expert on securing cloud-native applications.
Zero-Trust Infrastructure
His career at Tailscale, Tiger, and Palo Alto Networks is focused on building and scaling zero-trust network infrastructure and enterprise security platforms.
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Career

Work history

12-2025
Engineering Manager
Tailscale
2-2023 - 12-2025
Sr. Engineering Manager, Sensor Management
Corelight
4-2022 - 3-2023
Senior manager, SW Engineering
Palo Alto Networks
7-2021 - 1-2025
Engineering coach/mentor (volunteer)
Plato
8-2019 - 3-2022
Director Of Engineering
Tigera
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Education
1983 - 1988
B.S.
UC Santa Barbara
2002 - 2003
M.A.
San Francisco State University
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