Brian Bayer
Senior Software Development Engineer In Test CI CD Architect Test Automation AWS EKS TDD
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Bayer is a Senior SDET and CI/CD architect with 11+ years of experience designing mission‑critical test automation, TDD practices, and containerized delivery pipelines for regulated domains like space, telecom, and healthcare. He has led disaster recovery and dual‑datacenter platforms at a Fortune 10 company and currently drives containerized CI/CD and EKS-based deployments that cut deployment time and costs while increasing reliability. A pragmatic coach and technical leader, he consistently raises engineering maturity through mentorship, Agile coaching, and operational TDD, improving code coverage and reducing defects. Brian blends deep hands‑on skills across Ruby/Rails, C#, Docker, GitHub Actions, and AWS with a systems mindset honed from early C/C++ and Unix work. His practical side projects — from a C# cross‑browser automation suite to reusable GitHub Actions and secure secret‑handling gists — show he experiments with production-grade patterns outside of work. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he pairs a love of music, landscaping, and cooking with a belief that diverse interests fuel creative, resilient engineering.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Case Western Reserve UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Information Science Engineering, Philosophy Minor, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Information Science Engineering, Philosophy Minor at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (20)
watir9
capybara9
spock9
geb9
minitest8
rspec8
testing7
java7
ruby-on-rails6
jwt6
cucumber6
faker6
groovy6
ruby6
test-framework6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
brianjbayer/SampleCSharpXunitSelenium
Mar 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 review, 33 PRs, 47 pushes in 2 years 7 months
csharpxunitselenium
brianjbayer/sample-login-watir-cucumber
Aug 2016 - Mar 2025
Contributions:11 reviews, 175 PRs, 263 pushes in 8 years 8 months
watircucumberruby
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