Summary
Brandon Duong is a Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience focused on DevOps, cloud engineering, and observability, currently contributing to Cisco’s Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services observability team. He blends hands-on automation (Python, GitLab CI, Ansible), container orchestration (Nomad, Kubernetes/EKS, Docker), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) to build alerting pipelines, deploy ElasticStack and Prometheus, and integrate monitoring across AWS and third-party APIs like ThousandEyes. Holding a Secret clearance and a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from UC San Diego, he brings disciplined, security-conscious practices to platform reliability. Colleagues know him for pragmatic scripting—Kapacitor TICKscripts, Telegraf plugins, and Lambda-driven webhooks—that turn scattered metrics into actionable service assurance. Based in Lakewood, CA, he pairs a games-dev-tinged curiosity with production-grade engineering to simplify complex observability challenges.
11 years of coding experience
University of California, San Diego