Brandon Kraft
Brandon Kraft
@kraft@kraft.blog

My life is an open-source book.

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Home Base

Austin, TX

Education

B.A., Sociology with a minor in Science, Technology, and Society, 2010, The University of Texas at Austin

M.B.A., Business Analytics, 2024, Midwestern State University (TX)

  • All The Water

    Today is the first day all eight of us showered or bathed in the same day. Unrelated, the City of Austin saw a spike in water usage and declared a water emergency. 🤣

  • I’m a Code Wrangler

    This is old news at this point, but I realized I never mentioned it here. A few months back, I shifted from a Happiness Lead to a developer. I’m excited about the move and especially that I’m able to continue to work on Jetpack. I’ve always worked with the code powering Jetpack, but usually minor…

  • That Was Scary: Postpartum Hemorrhage

    Vanessa gave me quite the scare after Ruth was born.

  • Welcome Vanessa Ruth!

    Vanessa and I are proud to announce the birth of our sixth daughter, Vanessa Ruth Gonzalez Kraft, born yesterday morning. Both Vanessa and Ruth are doing well now. We weren’t expecting her until closer to her due date of the 25th, so we didn’t expect to be here right now! At Automattic, since we all…

  • Baby Six Is Coming

    I submitted my official notice of paternity leave!

  • 10 Years!

    We’ve been married ten years!