Brian Anderson

AI Systems Architect & Enterprise Solutions Architect

Denver, CO

[email protected] https://briananderson.xyz

LAST_UPDATED: 2026-04-09

STATUS: ACTIVE

Professional Summary

With sixteen years of experience, including twelve in leadership roles, I operate at the intersection of architecture, platform strategy, and enterprise transformation. I design the operating models and technical foundations that enable large organizations to deliver software reliably at scale, covering CI/CD platforms, cloud architectures, and zero-downtime migration strategies across Fortune 500 environments. My work focuses on standardizing delivery, reducing systemic risk, and creating leverage through platform thinking, with deep expertise in microservices and observability-driven systems. I view AI as the next evolution of automation, one that introduces probabilistic behavior into deterministic systems and therefore requires even stronger architectural guardrails. At AWS, I partner with enterprise leaders to define AI strategy, validate high-impact use cases through rapid prototyping, and establish the engineering and operational foundations required to scale these systems into production.

Skills

Experience

Enterprise Solutions Architect

September 2024 - Present [1 yr 8 mos]

Amazon Web Services | Denver, CO

Industrial Data & Agentic AI (ProveIT): Built a cross-industry prototype for Glass and Pharma manufacturing that ingested MQTT data streams via a Unified Namespace (UNS) architecture, categorized and standardized stream contents into a time-series database, and integrated an Agentic AI layer using AgentCore and Bedrock for anomaly detection and automated SOP-driven troubleshooting. Delivered persona-specific dashboards (OEE, equipment state) and natural-language querying of production line status.
Customer Experience and Rapid Prototyping (Amazon Connect): Identified the opportunity and built a working prototype that demonstrated multi-threaded conversation support and extended customer support hours for a global manufacturer. Personally engineered a secure SMS image-upload integration to address a specific visual troubleshooting gap, using this technical deep dive to earn the trust required to influence their broader modernization strategy.
Enterprise Modernization (SAP Integration): Guided a global manufacturer through architecting secure, scalable AWS infrastructure for a Document Management System integrated with SAP ERP. Established best practices for infrastructure as code, private VPC architecture with VPC endpoints, and S3 gateway patterns for high scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency. Leveraging trust built through earlier prototypes, secured executive buy-in for a comprehensive multi-year cloud migration roadmap.
Agentic AI Platform (Stallion): Built a local-first AI agent platform to explore the full lifecycle of agent delivery, including tool orchestration, plugin-based extensibility, and observability for cost, reliability, and agent behavior. Instrumented the platform with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus/Grafana dashboards to make agent runs debuggable and production-ready.↗
Agentic Developer Tooling (Kiro): Among the top 70 most active users out of 280k+ internal Kiro CLI users. Built AI workflows for Kiro that standardized ideation, implementation, and verification loops for developer and solutions architecture work. Reduced personal admin overhead by ~4 hours/week and used promptfoo-based evals to catch prompt contradictions before release.↗

Technical Director

March 2024 - September 2024 [7 mos]

Valtech | Kin + Carta | Denver, CO

Strategic Enterprise Modernization (Discover Financial): Partnered with client Directors and VPs to architect the migration of 14 mission-critical credit card applications from legacy WebSphere/PCF to OpenShift (OCP). Instilled executive confidence through transparent delivery roadmaps and zero-defect migration strategies.
Engineering Excellence & Cultural Leadership: Pioneered a 'Quality First' mandate by implementing TDD and automation as a standard. Scaled organizational expertise by serving as a primary architectural resource, enabling dozens of additional teams to meet aggressive migration deadlines.
Scalable Architecture & Enablement: Directed the implementation of standardized integration patterns using Helm Charts and Kubernetes Operators. Enabled 'first-class' adoption of AWS services (RDS for PostgreSQL) and observability suites (Instana/Datadog) via shared, configurable CI/CD pipelines.

Senior Technical Principal

February 2020 - March 2024 [4 yrs 2 mos]

Kin + Carta | Denver, CO

CI/CD Platform Engineering (Discover Financial): Led the integration layer for the Trident pipeline, a standardized CI/CD framework spanning 300+ dedicated staff and 5,000+ applications with an estimated $30M in savings. Defined Golden Paths and integration playbooks for production adoption, socialized standards across the organization, and identified gaps in monitoring, AWS integration (via Kubernetes Operators), and deployment strategies (canary, blue/green). Resulted in a 90% reduction in deployment lead time.↗
Architectural Governance & Provisioning (Gordon Food Service): Engineered a standardized 'Golden Path' for enterprise cloud adoption by architecting a centralized Terraform module library. This automated the provisioning of fragmented tools (GitLab, SonarCloud, Apigee, NexusIQ) across the enterprise, ensuring security compliance and budgetary guardrails.↗
Data Modernization (Gordon Food Service): Led the development of ICDS (Integrated Consumption Data Store), normalizing fragmented data sources into a centralized BigQuery repository with Dataflow pipelines and a standardized API layer on GKE, replacing multiple one-off data duplication patterns that teams relied on for core financial workflows.↗

Technical Principal

January 2017 - February 2020 [3 yrs 2 mos]

Solstice | Kin + Carta | Denver, CO

Google Cloud Ecommerce Architecture (Gordon Food Service): Architected a high-concurrency platform using Angular and Java Spring Boot on GKE, leveraging Firestore, Pub/Sub, and Memorystore. Scaled the organization to 60+ developers across 5 teams, achieving 8–9 production deployments per day.↗
Mobile Architecture: Served as Solution Architect and Android Lead for a geospatial field-mapping solution for a large agriculture company. Engineered the architecture to visualize satellite/drone data and integrated a proprietary Nitrogen simulation analysis tool. Built a dual-platform CD pipeline using Fastlane, Docker, and AWS Device Farm to ensure feature parity.
Innovation Leadership: Engineered an internal DevOps framework for standardized distribution of Android, iOS, and Cordova Hybrid applications. Reduced release overhead from 4 weeks to 1 week for 6 production-supported applications via Fabric Beta.

Senior Technical Consultant

July 2015 - January 2017 [1 yr 7 mos]

Solstice | Kin + Carta | Chicago, IL

Enterprise Mobile Strategy: Served as Solution Architect and Tech Lead for native iOS and Android applications for a Global Fast Food enterprise, overseeing complex integration with ServiceNow platform.
Modernization Roadmaps: Led technical sales engagements for large-scale fleet management clients, performing architectural audits and providing strategic roadmaps to modernize legacy platforms and UI/UX.
Innovation & R&D Leadership: Spearheaded R&D projects involving Raspberry Pi (Flask), Oculus Rift (Unity 3D), and Amazon Echo to demonstrate experiential commerce at industry conference (Solstice FWD).
Location-Based Services: Architected a high-traffic healthcare conference application utilizing iBeacons (BLE) for proximity-based notifications and Parse for real-time messaging.

Technical Consultant

April 2014 - July 2015 [1 yr 4 mos]

Solstice | Chicago, IL

Product Delivery: Sole developer and architect for a premium Swift iOS application for an executive society. Separately, built an AngularJS e-commerce platform for a food distributor with automated deployment via Octopus Deploy, and architected reusable WebView components to share data visualization across native mobile platforms for a wealth management client.

Technical Analyst

June 2013 - April 2014 [11 mos]

Solstice Mobile | Chicago, IL

Financial Services Engineering: Delivered core mobile features for a large financial services client in 4-week sprints, including Photo Check Deposit, Scheduled Payments and a complete home screen refactor using Auto Layout.

Education & Early Career

University of Wisconsin - Madison

B.S - Computer Science

August 2009 - May 2013

Space Science and Engineering Center

Web Developer and Database Management

June 2010 - May 2013

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

Professional Summary

Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

DevOps & CI/CD

Languages & Frameworks

Data & Messaging

Observability & Monitoring

AI Systems and Concepts

AI Development Tools & Frameworks