Brian Carlson
Founder at Self-employed
Annandale, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Carlson is a founder and seasoned cloud operations and security professional with 7 years in cloud-focused roles and over two decades in network and systems engineering. He led the Operational Excellence pillar for AWS Well-Architected, helping enterprises run, monitor, and continuously improve cloud workloads, and earlier operated as a senior TAM shaping Cloud Operations Reviews for large customers. As founder he builds a framework of tools that gives enterprises rapid feedback on development, IT operations, and cloud adoption to surface high-value opportunities and inform investment decisions. His background spans hands-on incident response, automation and orchestration, and Federal information assurance—experience that informs pragmatic, audit-ready recommendations. Based in Annandale, VA, he blends deep technical troubleshooting with strategic operational thinking, often diagnosing root causes without direct system access. He’s comfortable translating complex cloud maturity gaps into actionable, measurable improvements for enterprises.
7 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Brandon University
Github Skills (8)
resiliency10
governance10
reliability-engineering10
aws10
amazon-ecs10
reliability10
architecture10
security10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
akrk1986/aws-well-architected-labs
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Hands on labs and code to help you learn, measure, and build using architectural best practices.
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
hands-onhandsmeasurearchitecturalaws
awslabs/aws-well-architected-labs
Apr 2019 - Mar 2021
Hands on labs and code to help you learn, measure, and build using architectural best practices.
Contributions:10 reviews, 24 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 11 months
hands-onsecurityresiliencywell-architectedreliability-engineering
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