Barrow Kwan
Head Of DevOps at Bear River Associates
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolBarrow Kwan is a seasoned Head of DevOps based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over 15 years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud and hybrid infrastructure. He has repeatedly led teams through large migrations and resiliency programs—most notably accelerating an on-premise-to-cloud and VM-to-Kubernetes migration in under nine months and halving daily support tickets through automation. At GoTo he shaped infrastructure roadmaps, championed observability to cut incident response times by 30%, and built repeatable IaC and CI/CD patterns that reduced human error and sped deployments. Comfortable both as a strategic leader and a technical doer, he has grown and mentored DevOps/SRE teams while partnering closely with security, product, and engineering stakeholders. Based on a long career spanning ThoughtWorks to Cisco and current Head of DevOps roles, he brings pragmatic execution, strong vendor and stakeholder management, and a knack for turning greenfield visions into operational platforms. Despite corporate leadership roles, he remains a practitioner who still implements automation and tooling to deliver measurable operational gains.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at San Francisco State UniversityAssociate of Science (AS) Computer Science, Associate of Science (AS) Computer Science at Skyline CollegeAssociate of Science (AS) Computer Science, Associate of Science (AS) Computer Science at College of San Mateo
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (144)
bitrise10
continuous-testing10
continuous-integration10
gocd10
robot10
robotics9
monitoring9
continuous-delivery9
linux9
intel-edison9
bluetooth9
sudo9
beaglebone-black9
docker9
gpio9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
barrowkwan/gocd-golang-agent
May 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:47 pushes, 3 branches, 2 tags in 1 year 6 months
golangagentgocd
barrowkwan/gocd_golang_hello
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:21 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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