Brad Downey
Strategic Account Director
Laguna Beach, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrad Downey is a Strategic Account Director with a decade of experience helping enterprise customers adopt cloud-native and data center technologies. He has progressed from hands-on network engineering and backbone operations to senior strategic sales roles at GitLab, Cisco, Veza, and Spectro Cloud, where he now leads accounts focused on Kubernetes and SaaS expansion. Known for translating complex infrastructure and security needs into repeatable platforms, he combines technical credibility (CCNA-trained) with a proven track record in driving new business and expanding subscriptions. Based in Laguna Beach, he blends enterprise rigor with a consultative approach that resonates with engineering and executive stakeholders alike. A practical problem-solver, he often leverages his deep background in routing, unified communications, and managed services to uncover non-obvious operational risks and modernization opportunities.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
CCNA, Network Technology, CCNA, Network Technology at Cisco Network Academy
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (108)
terraform-module10
proxies10
service-mesh9
mqtt9
ansible9
golang9
fault-injection9
terraform9
python9
security9
api-management9
google-cloud9
home-assistant9
amazon-rekognition9
microservices9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gitlab-gitops-demo/infra-templates
Apr 2020 - Jun 2024
Contributions:80 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 3 months
magic7s/ansible-kubeadm-contiv
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
Ansible script to provision kubernetes cluster with contiv network CNI, also deploys sample applications with micro segmentation and istio service mesh.
Contributions:1 release, 31 commits, 25 PRs in 2 months
ansiblecniistiokubernetes-clustersegmentation
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