Summary
Brandon Cox is a Staff Specialist Solution Architect with 11 years of experience helping U.S. federal agencies adopt hybrid cloud, middleware, and cloud-native technologies. Based in Washington, D.C., he’s spent a decade-plus at Red Hat where he progressed from middleware consultant to staff architect, driving OpenShift and Red Hat middleware adoption across law enforcement, justice, space, science, and civilian financial domains. He has hands-on experience stabilizing high-stakes platforms—most notably contributing to the healthcare.gov surge by improving architecture, SRE practices, and leading cross-team production fixes. Brandon blends technical leadership with prototype-driven persuasion, architecting integrations using API management, Fuse/Camel, BPM tooling, and custom Rails solutions to solve audit and workflow challenges. Known for coordinating multi-vendor teams under pressure, he pairs deep product knowledge with a pragmatic focus on delivering auditable, production-ready outcomes. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Virginia Commonwealth University and brings a rare combination of long-term vendor expertise and frontline incident remediation experience.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth University
English, Spanish