Brian Faivre
Chief Operating Officer
Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Faivre is a brewery executive and operations leader who blends a Computer Science background with a UC Davis Master Brewers credential to drive data-informed production and commercial growth across multi-site brewing and distilling operations. As COO he has scaled capacity, nearly doubled operations EBITDA, led cGMP and food safety programs, and built analytics and recipe-management systems that saved hundreds of thousands in licensing and improved fermentation performance via machine learning. He began his career as a software engineer and still codes and architects open-source tools like Brewery Pi to put process data into the hands of craft brewers. Known for translating complex control systems and statistical methods into practical SOPs, Brian champions Lean Six Sigma and automation to cut costs, reduce waste, and improve quality. He combines hands-on brewing passion with enterprise P&L accountability and a track record of building teams, commissioning large-scale systems, and turning operational data into competitive advantage.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of California, DavisMaster Brewers Program, Master Brewers Program at UC Davis Continuing and Professional EducationCalifornia State University, SacramentoAssociate of Science - AS, General Studies, Associate of Science - AS, General Studies at Santa Rosa Junior College
English
Github Skills (36)
monitoring10
visualization10
dashboard10
mysql10
flask-sqlalchemy10
grafana10
visualize10
analytics10
prometheus10
data-visualization10
elasticsearch10
observability9
composable9
sqlalchemy9
business-intelligence9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
brewerypi/brewerypi
Nov 2017 - May 2021
Contributions:52 releases, 1 review, 957 commits in 3 years 6 months
bfaivre/alembic-sqlalchemy-demo
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:1 release, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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