Summary
Brendan Busey is a systems-focused engineer with over a decade of experience delivering scalable cloud and security-first solutions for DoD, IC, and enterprise customers. He is currently a Systems Development Engineer (SRE) II at Amazon Web Services, specializing in identity, cryptography, and identity management at cloud scale with automated, declarative multi-cloud deployments. Prior to AWS, he served at Microsoft where he designed and deployed large-scale Azure Kubernetes clusters powering AI Cognitive Services and the Azure OpenAI front door, led a 5+ engineer on-call team, and drove blameless post-mortems and Fortune 500 incident debriefs. His background includes FedRAMP/DoD Impact Level work in Azure government clouds, automated secret rotation, vulnerability management, and secure infrastructure deployment using Vault and CloudFormation. Based in Seattle, WA, Brendan holds Top-Secret/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph for SCIF environments, ensuring auditable and compliant operations. He combines hands-on software engineering with leadership in incident management and cross-team collaboration, translating complex requirements into reliable, scalable systems.
11 years of coding experience