Brian Dwyer
Head Of IT User Engagement And Communications
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolBrian Dwyer is a seasoned IT leader with 12+ years delivering change, adoption, and communication frameworks that align technology investments to measurable business value across large enterprises. As Head of IT User Engagement and Communications at Regeneron he builds scalable programs to drive adoption and tell the IT value story, drawing on prior roles where he led enterprise change for transformations impacting 100,000+ users and managed multi‑million dollar portfolios. Technically fluent from his Navy engineering background through senior roles at Pfizer and ABM, he combines strategy with hands‑on DevOps and cloud contributions—his open source work includes enhancements to Vagrant, Test Kitchen EC2, and Cloud Custodian that improved provisioning flexibility and AWS integration. He’s equally experienced in governance, security and user experience, having delivered intranet, mobile and compliance solutions that boosted adoption and saved millions. Known for translating complex technical programs into practical adoption plans, he also brings an uncommon mix of submarine officer discipline and practical engineering curiosity to cross‑functional leadership.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MS Management, MS Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteBS Civil Engineering, BS Civil Engineering at University of Notre DameWestlake High School, Thornwood, NY
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Github Skills (38)
ec10
test-kitchen10
cookbook10
cloud-computing10
python10
package-management10
testing10
cloud-infrastructure10
terraform10
ruby10
rabbitmq10
terraformer10
chef-client10
automation10
amazon-ec210
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
test-kitchen/kitchen-ec2
May 2018 - Dec 2022
A Test Kitchen Driver for Amazon EC2
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:15 commits, 8 PRs, 19 comments in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on enhancing the test-kitchen/kitchen-ec2 repository, a Test Kitchen driver for Amazon EC2. Their contributions involved bug fixes and feature implementations related to security group management, subnet selection, and spot instance provisioning. They improved the driver's integration with AWS services by supporting features like AWS_PROFILE passthrough, metadata options, and automatic SSH key generation, as well as general test suite improvements.
amazon-ec2driverawstest-kitchenec2
sous-chefs/aws
May 2018 - Nov 2021
Development repository for the aws cookbook
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on improving the infrastructure and dependencies of the `aws` cookbook. Their contributions included updating gem dependencies, ensuring the use of specific gems, and integrating Cookstyle and Rubocop for code quality. They also made improvements to the test suite and fixed pagination issues for the SSM parameter store resource.
awschefchef-resourcemanaged-by-terraform
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