Summary
Brian Keyser is a Technical Principal with over a decade of experience driving delivery and operational improvements across large enterprises and startups, currently based in the Denver area. He blends deep hands-on engineering—Java, Spring, microservices, AWS, Docker, Terraform—with proven leadership in adopting Agile and DevOps practices that rescued multi-million-dollar projects and cut operating costs. Brian excels at building high-performing teams through mentoring and process coaching, and he quantifies delivery improvements to demonstrate value. His background includes architecting CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and PCI-compliant payment platforms, and he has a knack for translating legacy, stage-gated processes into modern automated pipelines. Unusually for a principal technologist, he holds an MS in Aerospace Engineering, reflecting a long-term orientation toward rigorous design and systems thinking.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder