Brandon Huey
Vice President, Advanced Technology (Software Systems) at Farlight
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Huey is a senior technology executive and founder with nearly three decades of experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms for enterprise and private equity customers. Currently VP of Advanced Technology at Switch and founder of Farlight, he blends hands-on systems architecture with product-minded leadership to deliver ultra-low-latency, resilient connectivity solutions and large-scale cloud modernizations. At AWS he led solutions architecture and modernization for global private equity, helping portfolio companies unlock value through scalable infrastructure and engineering practices. His career spans leadership roles at Zillow, Auction.com and Beats Music, reflecting deep expertise in platform engineering, cloud operations, and driving transformation across diverse organizations. Based in San Diego, he pairs a practitioner’s technical depth with a clear business focus—often translating complex distributed systems tradeoffs into tangible commercial outcomes.
17 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota
Github Skills (8)
terraform7
graph7
pid6
infrastructure-as-code5
packer4
aws4
ecr2
kubernetes2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
brannn/sql-batcher
Apr 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:4 releases, 30 PRs, 207 pushes in 3 days
brannn/homelab-foundations
Jul 2025 - Mar 2026
Contributions:118 pushes in 8 months
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