Brian Clark
Director, Engineering & IT Operations
Tampa, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Clark is a seasoned technology leader and Director of Engineering & IT Operations with over 20 years of experience driving cloud transformation, DevOps, and infrastructure automation across enterprise and startup environments. He specializes in AWS architecture, Kubernetes platform engineering, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), and CI/CD automation to build scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions. Brian has led mission-critical cloud migrations, built resilient Kubernetes platforms, and consistently reduced infrastructure costs through automation and observability-driven operations. He combines hands-on contributions to open-source DevOps tooling—such as meaningful infrastructure and ACL work on the sous-chefs/consul cookbook—with executive leadership in enterprise IT and cloud strategy. Based in Tampa with an active Top Secret clearance, he brings a rare blend of operational rigor, security awareness, and practical engineering depth honed across federal, commercial, and IoT-focused companies.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at Indiana University Indianapolis
Github Skills (12)
chef-client10
cookbook10
chef-solo10
automation10
consul10
automations10
devops10
testing9
access-control9
access-control-list9
acl9
cloud-infrastructure8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/consul
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Development repository for the consul cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Brian contributed significantly to the infrastructure and automation aspects of the project. Their work involved updating the URL for the UI package, fixing unit tests, and adding a resource/provider for ACL support. Furthermore, they modified the attributes file and recipes to include diplomat gem version, and performed general cleanup and unfused a poise resource/provider. The user also created and tested ACL configurations.
cookbookchef-resourceconsulmanaged-by-terraformchef
bdclark/nomadctl
Jan 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:14 releases, 40 commits, 38 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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