Brian Bianco
Staff Infrastructure Engineer & Tech Lead at Button
Watertown, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Bianco is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with over 14 years of professional experience and more than 20 years of hands-on expertise building, deploying, and operating reliable, cloud-native systems. He has led major migrations from legacy Chef/EC2 architectures to modern, event-driven and container-based platforms on AWS, often achieving zero-downtime transitions while improving operability and cost controls. A pragmatic polyglot—Go, Python, Ruby, Bash—he designs infrastructure as code with Terraform, builds CI/CD and unified build tooling, and authors production tooling that streamlines developer workflows. He mentors teams, owns architecture and decision-making, and has driven company-wide tooling adoption and cost analysis as a principal engineer. Brian is also an active open-source contributor, notably improving the widely used redisio Chef cookbook to harden Redis deployments and integrate service management. Based in Watertown, MA, he combines deep system-level knowledge with a collaborative approach to share learnings and elevate team practices.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Math, BS, Computer Science, Math at State University of New York at Plattsburgh
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Github Skills (9)
chef-client10
chef-solo10
automation10
automations10
devops10
upstart9
redis9
cookbook8
configuration-management8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/redisio
Apr 2012 - Aug 2017
Development repository for the redisio cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 167 commits, 36 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the automation and configuration aspects of the `redisio` cookbook. Their work focused on refining build processes and automating the setup and management of Redis instances through modifications to the init scripts and configuration files. The contributions included improvements to the service management, addition of features such as the option to connect to redis through a socket, and integrating the cookbook with the upstart system. Overall, the user was instrumental in enhancing the deployment and operational aspects of Redis using Chef.
cookbookredisredisioredisearchchef-resource
brianbianco/vimrc
Jul 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:6 pushes in 9 years 9 months
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