Brian Liao
Director Of Cloud Operations
Cupertino, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Liao is a seasoned cloud and operations leader with two decades of experience building resilient, scalable infrastructure across on-premises and multi-cloud environments. As Director of Cloud Operations, he has led global 24/7 teams, driven DevOps and IaC adoption, and delivered measurable cost savings—over $2M reduced COGS—while improving workflow efficiency through automation and self-healing systems. He has deep hands-on expertise in migrations, observability, disaster recovery, and managing MySQL backend reliability at scale, and has repeatedly steered organizations through SOC 2/HIPAA compliance and data center transitions. A pragmatic problem-solver and mentor, Brian blends technical rigor with people leadership to transform teams into high-performing units that prioritize customer outcomes. Based in Cupertino, he pairs a strong operational track record with a curiosity for AI-driven productivity enhancements to optimize engineering workflows.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Associate Science, Computer Science, Associate Science, Computer Science at Pasadena City CollegeUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (41)
gitbook10
markdown9
rust8
hyperparameter-tuning8
job-queue8
spot-instances8
slurm8
gradle7
cloud-computing7
job-scheduler7
kubernetes7
cost-optimization7
reasonml7
gpu7
go7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
njesus15/TA-Knowledge-Distillation-for-Low-Precision-Neural-Networks
Mar 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:40 commits, 1 push in 7 months
briantliao/self-study
Oct 2023 - Jun 2026
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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