Brett Swift
Senior Cloud Architect at Caylent
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolBrett Swift is a Senior Cloud Architect with 12 years of experience modernizing large enterprises through infrastructure automation, DevOps practices, and cloud-native architecture. He has driven organizational change at Shaw Communications by implementing Puppet Enterprise, designing gitops self-service platforms, and introducing serverless and container patterns to replace VM-centric processes. At Caylent he now combines hands-on architecture with engineering leadership, translating developer experience and SDLC rigor into infrastructure delivery. Known for bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders, Brett focuses on user experience in automation and builds feedback-driven systems that reduce operational friction. He pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with a talent for mentoring and persuading management that infrastructure automation is as critical as software automation.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Biology, B.Sc., Biology at The University of Western OntarioApplied Information Technology, Distinction, Applied Information Technology, Distinction at Information Technology Institute
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Github Skills (200)
webextension10
puppet10
versioning10
aws-lambda10
cloud-infrastructure10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
compiler-errors9
history9
whisper9
torrent9
lambda9
firefox9
cloud-services9
cli9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
brettswift/k8s_nas
Nov 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:13 releases, 5 reviews, 11 PRs in 8 months
brettswift/puppet-sensu_suite
Mar 2015 - Jul 2016
A puppet module that glues puppet-sensu, puppet-graphite, and puppet-grafana together.
Contributions:41 PRs, 85 pushes, 47 branches in 1 year 4 months
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