Brian Calvert
Director And Principal Software Architect at SolarWinds
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Calvert is a seasoned software leader and architect with over two decades of engineering experience and a decade focused on senior architecture and leadership roles. Currently Director and Principal Software Architect at SolarWinds in Austin, he combines hands-on coding with strategic platform transformation across a 10M+ LOC codebase, driving >50% gains in developer efficiency by co-developing and evangelizing core frameworks. His work spans cloud-native, observability, and deployment automation using .NET, Kubernetes, Docker, neo4j, Python, and AWS, and he’s a member of the company’s AI technical and engineering leadership teams. Brian has a track record of turning prototypes into product features, leading inference and topology engines, RESTful frameworks, and developer tooling while responding to high-severity customer escalations. He pairs deep technical breadth with product sensibility, having helped shape SaaS offerings, hosted services, and developer experiences at both startups and large enterprises. Outside of full-time roles he consults and continues to iterate on tooling and architectures, reflecting a pragmatic curiosity grounded in advanced studies in AI and computer science.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Science - BS Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Systems Engineering at Arizona State UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (18)
solarwinds-orion10
solarwinds10
java9
perl9
csharp9
sdk9
gradle-plugin8
powershell8
maven8
librato8
gradle7
maven-plugin7
docker-registry7
docker6
kubernetes4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
librato/librato-python-web
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:37 commits, 10 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 months
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solarwinds/OrionSDK
Apr 2018 - Aug 2022
SDK for the SolarWinds Orion platform, including tools, documentation, and samples in PowerShell, C#, Go, Perl, and Java.
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 comment, 1 issue in 4 years 5 months
solarwindspowershellsdkorioncsharp
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