Brian Connolly
Senior DevOps Engineer at UW Medicine
Connecticut, United States
Summary
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SeniorBrian Connolly is a Senior DevOps Engineer with two decades of systems, network, and security experience and 13 years focused on engineering roles across academia, healthcare, and AI startups. He designs, deploys, and operates cloud-native web applications and HPC infrastructure—especially for biomedical and data-science research—bridging enterprise requirements and regulated environments (FISMA, HIPAA). Comfortable across AWS and Azure, Linux and Windows, he moves projects from concept through spec to production while collaborating with developers, PMs, auditors, and execs. His background includes senior systems and HPC roles at UW Medicine, Fred Hutch, Moffitt, and Union.ai, reflecting deep experience with research computing workflows and operationalizing complex pipelines. A practical architect who pairs hands-on operations with project and configuration management, he often lives in the intersection of reproducible research and scalable cloud infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (28)
open-science10
reproducible-science10
tiddlywiki10
bioinformatics10
data-science9
documentation9
science9
scientific-computing2
db21
docker1
openstack-swift1
large-scale1
kubernetes1
user-interface1
database-access1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
unionai/union-cloud-infrastructure
Jul 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:13 reviews, 13 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 6 months
bdconnolly/syseng-hw
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
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