Brian Ewell
Co-Founder at Divergent Industries LLC
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Ewell is an award-winning, self-taught software engineer and co-founder with 14 years of experience building scalable full-stack web applications and resilient database architectures from Portland, Oregon. He blends hands-on development with ops expertise—designing PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB solutions, automating secure deployments with Ansible, and running private-cloud monitoring stacks using Grafana and TimescaleDB. His work spans incident-hardened infrastructure, CVE-driven security audits based on NIST guidance, and practical replication/backup strategies (ZFS snapshots, log shipping, streaming replication) validated via automated restores. A repeat founder, he has shepherded client-facing projects for large enterprises like Banfield Pet Hospital while also reselling network transit to educational institutions under FCC E-Rate. Known for pragmatic problem-solving under pressure, he pairs deep systems knowledge with an ability to translate complex technical trade-offs into reliable, auditable production systems.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Portland State University
Github Skills (64)
minecraft10
timescaledb10
postgresql9
historian9
analytics9
bukkit9
railtie9
time-series9
paper9
postgresql-extension9
sql9
pkgsrc9
geocoding9
netbsd9
smartos9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
brianewell/ansible-smartos-tricks
Sep 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:132 commits, 75 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
brianewell/dhcache
Mar 2025 - Jun 2025
A rust-based micro Diffie-Hellman parameter generation web-service
Contributions:1 PR, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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