Brian Johnson
Senior Operations Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolBrian Johnson is a Senior Operations Engineer with 14 years of deep experience designing and operating build and delivery pipelines for large-scale game and service platforms. Based in San Francisco, he has led build and release teams at GREE and PlayStation Network, scaling macOS build farms 500% and creating Vagrant providers and automation that removed manual release steps. A hands-on polyglot, he codes in Go, Groovy, C, Ruby, Python, Bash and shell, and is a recognized contributor to tooling like the vagrant-hostmanager plugin that automates multi-machine hosts file management. He combines cloud-native expertise across AWS, GCP and Kubernetes with strong configuration management skills in Puppet, Ansible, Docker and Jenkins. Known for pragmatic, cost-effective delivery strategies, he blends operational rigor with developer-friendly automation to accelerate continuous delivery.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota
Github Skills (12)
automation10
hosts-file10
automations10
hosts10
development-environment10
ruby9
virtual-machine9
dns8
docker6
dockers6
githubaction-workflow5
github-ci5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
devopsgroup-io/vagrant-hostmanager
May 2013 - Jun 2013
:pencil: A Vagrant plugin that manages hosts files within a multi-machine environment.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the Vagrant hostmanager plugin, focusing on automating and managing the /etc/hosts file within a multi-machine Vagrant environment. Their commits introduced features for updating and deleting hosts file entries, enabling automatic updates during machine up and destroy events. They also worked on improving the management of local hosts file and ensuring the efficient execution of relevant actions.
pencilvagrantvagrant-pluginhostsenvironment-machine
b2jrock/puppet-datadog-agent
Sep 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
datadog-agentagentpuppetpuppet-moduledatadog
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