Brian Ehlert
Director Of Product Management at F5
Woodinville, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Ehlert is a Director of Product Management for Modern Applications at F5 with over two decades of hands‑on IT, engineering, and product leadership experience, now focused on cloud‑native application delivery and F5 NGINX alliances across major cloud platforms. He brings a practitioner’s perspective from deep roots in production IT, systems engineering, and long tenure at Citrix where he moved from test engineering into technical product roles driving Azure and virtualization integrations. Known for translating complex platform and ecosystem requirements into practical integrations, Brian has led controller, ADC, automation, and analytics initiatives that bridge developer and operator needs. He pairs technical depth in networking, virtualization, and cloud identity with a calm, communicative approach to product strategy and community engagement. Outside work he applies the same maker mindset to gardening, cosplay construction, and wood-and-metal projects—an unexpected creative outlet that fuels his practical problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Software Test Engineer Certificate of IEP Completion Program, Software Test Engineer Certificate of IEP Completion Program at Bellevue CollegeBS Crop & Soil Science / Horticulture, BS Crop & Soil Science / Horticulture at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (71)
prometheus-exporter10
k8s10
ansible-role10
dataplane10
nginx-plus10
golang10
kubernetes10
load-balancing10
go10
prometheus10
ingress-controller10
docker10
ingress10
nginx-controller10
networking10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
brianehlert/ansible-tower-nginx-controller-examples
Apr 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
brianehlert/cicd-buzz
Apr 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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