Alex Brehm
Lead Platform Solutions Developer
Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Brehm is a Lead Platform Solutions Developer with 11 years of hands-on experience architecting and operating enterprise infrastructure at Heartland, managing over 200 Windows servers and critical web applications. He serves as the central liaison between developers and multiple infrastructure teams (firewall, network, server) and has driven repeatable DevOps practices across Chef, TeamCity, OctopusDeploy, and GitHub Enterprise. Alex has built and maintained custom deployment integrations—wrapping Fortify scans and automating APIM and Azure CDN deployments—and stood up messaging (RabbitMQ) and monitoring tooling to improve production reliability. He has a track record of modernizing release processes, migrating high-profile applications, and automating server lifecycle management with reusable Chef cookbooks. Based in Indiana, he aims to scale to several hundred self-provisioning nodes with automated monitoring and self-remediation inspired by Amazon and Netflix. A pragmatic problem-solver, he blends release engineering, platform automation, and security-focused operational improvements to keep complex payment systems running smoothly.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering Computer Science at University of Louisville
English
Stackoverflow
71reputation
3kreached
3answers
3questions
Github Skills (61)
cookbook10
datadog10
integrations9
agent9
ubuntu8
virtualbox8
nuget8
amazon7
jenkins-api-plugin7
nuget-gallery7
puppet7
redhat7
jenkins6
chef-infra6
jenkins-plugin6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ABrehm264/chef-datadog
May 2015 - Mar 2021
Chef cookbook for Datadog Agent & Integration
Contributions:12 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 10 months
datadog-agentcookbookagentchef-resourcemanaged-by-terraform
ABrehm264/bash_profile
Jan 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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