Brian Grant
Lead Engineer - Database Engineering
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Grant is a Lead Engineer specializing in database engineering and site reliability with a decade of experience building resilient, cloud-native SaaS systems for both enterprise and public-sector customers. Based in Portland, he has led SRE and database teams at Target after driving monitoring, CI/CD, alerting, and data-archiving initiatives at Zendesk and Airship that measurably improved SLOs and incident response. He combines hands-on skill with MySQL/Aurora, AWS data pipelines, automation and observability tooling with a track record of meeting SLAs and owning on-call rotations. Brian also brings open-source and civic-technology experience, having led backend platform architecture for public-sector projects used by multiple agencies. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and is known for automating toil away while mentoring teams and documenting design decisions through RFCs and ADRs.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampData Science/Machine Learning, Data Science/Machine Learning at Hack UniversityCoding, Coding at Team TreehouseRuby / JavaScript / Rails, Ruby / JavaScript / Rails at EpicodusCertificate Program Information Technology, Certificate Program Information Technology at Portland Community CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Anthropology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Anthropology at University of VermontMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (29)
backend9
reveal-js8
rpg6
team-project6
ruby4
django4
command-line4
cli4
game-development4
procedures3
django-rest-framework3
aws3
cookiecutter3
docker2
docker-image2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
BrianHGrant/emergency-response-backend
Feb 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:5 PRs, 51 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 4 months
team-projectemergencydockerbackendnodejs
hackoregon/emergency-response-backend
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
backend repo for the emergency response project team 2017
Contributions:312 commits, 203 PRs, 212 pushes in 2 months
backend
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