Brian Auron is a Platform Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Oracle, and startups. He specializes in automation, Kubernetes-adjacent platform work, and infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform, Puppet, and RunDeck, with a strong engineering background from roles at AWS Elemental and Jive. Comfortable moving between hands-on systems work and higher-level platform design, he’s known for keeping large distributed services reliable while streamlining operational toil. His dual academic background in Computer Science and Japanese signals both technical rigor and cross-cultural communication skills that he’s applied to mentoring and documentation. Currently at Modular, he continues to “touch computers” pragmatically—balancing deep systems knowledge with a taste for practical automation.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of Minnesota
N/A, Mathematics, N/A, Mathematics at Winona State University
Contributions:63 commits, 9 PRs, 55 pushes in 10 months
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