Brian Felton
Distinguished Engineer at Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Felton is a Distinguished Engineer with 12+ years building and automating cloud, storage, and IoT platforms, currently leading design, security, and automation efforts at Reinsurance Group of America. He blends deep hands-on expertise in DevOps, monitoring, and CI/CD—especially Ansible—with a track record of launching production object storage regions and IoT services across AWS and private clouds. Brian has repeatedly worn many hats (SRE, architect, developer, security lead) to create resilient systems and developer-focused tooling, including CI/CD pipelines and automated patching solutions. Based in Missouri, he favors problem-solving over technology tribalism and is known for tackling the hardest operational challenges while keeping work-life priorities clear as a husband and father. An unstated throughline in his career is turning operational pain into repeatable automation that scales across teams and environments.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (75)
high-performance10
storage10
database9
fuse9
rdma9
blob-storage9
backblaze9
fat9
azure-blob-storage9
csi-driver9
delta9
nfs9
data-exchange9
cloud-storage9
posix9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
emersonsoftware/api-gateway-ansible
Oct 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:162 commits, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years 1 month
bjfelton/boxdrop
Jan 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:7 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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