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Brian Anderson

Site Reliability Architect & DevOps Platform Engineer

Denver, CO

[email protected] https://briananderson.xyz
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Professional Summary

Platform engineering leader with over a decade of experience designing and operating production systems for Fortune 500 companies. Expert in Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD standardization, and observability implementation. Proven track record of achieving zero-downtime migrations, reducing deployment cycles from weeks to hours, and maintaining high availability for mission-critical financial and e-commerce systems. Specializing in Cloud Native Transformation, Platform Engineering, and Production Reliability. Expert in designing 'Paved Road' automation, high-availability architectures, and observability systems that ensure resilient production environments at scale.

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Skills

Cloud & Orchestration

AWSGoogle CloudKubernetesOpenShiftDockerLiquibaseTerraform Cloud

Infrastructure as Code

TerraformAWS CDK / CloudFormationHelm Charts

CI/CD & Release Engineering

GitHub ActionsGitLab CISpinnakerJenkinsFastlane

Reliability & Observability

DatadogInstanaElasticsearch

Networking & Security

VPC / Transit GatewayIstio

Data & Messaging

PostgreSQLRDS (Aurora)RedisMemorystoreKafkaPub/SubEventBridge

Languages

Java (Spring Boot)Node.js / TypeScriptPythonBash / Shell
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Experience

Enterprise Solutions Architect

September 2024 - Present [1 yr 6 mos]
Amazon Web Services | Denver, CO
  • Cloud Migration Architecture: Led architectural discovery for Greenfield enterprise customers, identifying high-impact opportunities for cloud-native modernization, Generative AI integration, and establishing migration roadmaps for legacy-to-cloud transitions.
  • Platform Automation: Engineered a GenAI-powered automation platform using Amazon Bedrock and Agentcore, reducing operational overhead by ~4 hours/week through automated CRM updates, documentation generation, and workflow orchestration.
  • Developer Tooling Integration: Championed adoption of developer productivity tools (Amazon Q Developer/Kiro) and integrated AI-assisted development frameworks (SpecKit/OpenSpec) to showcase thought leadership in driving adoption across enterprise customers.

Technical Director

March 2024 - September 2024 [7 mos]
Valtech | Kin + Carta | Denver, CO
  • Zero-Downtime Migration: Orchestrated migration of 6 mission-critical Java SpringBoot credit card applications from legacy Websphere and Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) to OpenShift (OCP on AWS), maintaining 100% availability throughout the transition.
  • CI/CD Transformation: Implemented trunk-based CI/CD and TDD mandates, reducing deployment cycles from monthly releases to multiple on-demand daily deployments while maintaining strict financial sector change management compliance with ServiceNow and LeanIX.
  • Observability Enablement: Standardized enterprise-wide integration patterns using Helm Charts, enabling consistency in application deployments and seamless adoption of Datadog and Instana for managing SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets across multiple delivery teams for unified production monitoring.

Senior Technical Principal

February 2020 - March 2024 [4 yrs 2 mos]
Kin + Carta | Denver, CO
  • CI/CD & Platform Engineering (Discover Financial): Architected the integration layer for the "Trident" pipeline, a massive-scale CI/CD framework. Established "Golden Paths" to automate compliance, high availability, and trunk-based, continuous delivery, resulting in a 90% reduction in deployment lead time for microservices.
  • Infrastructure as Code (Gordon Food Service): Developed a comprehensive library of shared Terraform Modules and Liquibase patterns to centralize product provisioning, ensuring infrastructure consistency, automated security compliance, budgetary guardrails, and CI/CD templates across GitLab, SonarCloud, NexusIQ, and Apigee to enable rapid, secure deployment cycles across all enterprise product teams.

Technical Principal

January 2017 - February 2020 [3 yrs 2 mos]
Solstice | Kin + Carta | Denver, CO
  • GKE Platform Operations: Architected and operated a high-concurrency ordering platform on Google Kubernetes Engine, integrating Firestore, Pub/Sub, and Memorystore (Redis) to handle massive traffic spikes with sub-second latency.
  • Release Engineering: Achieved 8-9 production deployments per day via Spinnaker while scaling engineering team to 60+ developers.
  • Mobile CD Pipeline: Built a dual-platform continuous delivery pipeline using Fastlane, Jenkins, and Docker, integrating AWS Device Farm for automated testing across iOS and Android. Reduced release overhead for 6 production apps from 4 weeks to 1 week through pipeline automation.

Senior Technical Consultant

July 2015 - January 2017 [1 yr 7 mos]
Solstice | Kin + Carta | Chicago, IL
  • Enterprise Integration: Served as Solution Architect for native iOS and Android applications, designing complex backend integrations with ServiceNow and enterprise middleware systems.
  • Infrastructure Modernization: Led technical assessments for fleet management clients, performing architectural audits and delivering strategic roadmaps for legacy platform modernization.
  • R&D Innovation: Spearheaded R&D projects involving Raspberry Pi (Flask), IoT devices, and Amazon Echo to prototype next-generation experiential commerce platforms.

Technical Consultant

April 2014 - July 2015 [1 yr 4 mos]
Solstice | Chicago, IL
  • Deployment Automation: Architected an AngularJS web application with automated deployment pipelines using Octopus Deploy and TFS, establishing early CI/CD patterns for the organization.
  • Hybrid Integration: Built custom WebView integrations for native mobile apps, enabling Chart.js data visualization within iOS/Android applications for wealth management clients.

Technical Analyst

June 2013 - April 2014 [11 mos]
Solstice Mobile | Chicago, IL
  • Feature Delivery: Shipped core mobile features for large financial services client in 4-week sprints, including Photo Check Deposit and Scheduled Payments, maintaining strict quality standards for production releases.
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Education & Early Career

University of Wisconsin - Madison

B.S - Computer Science

August 2009 - May 2013

Space Science and Engineering Center

Web Developer and Database Administrator

June 2010 - May 2013

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Certifications

AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty ↗
January 2029
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional ↗
July 2028
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate ↗
February 2028
AWS Certified Developer - Associate ↗
January 2028
Google Cloud Professional Architect ↗
May 2020