Brian Link
Senior Director, Technical Operations
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Link is a Senior Director of Technical Operations with 12 years of hands-on experience building and running cloud-native digital media platforms for PBS, where he progressed from DevOps developer to leading global 24/7 operations and security teams. He combines deep infrastructure and automation expertise—Terraform, Docker, AWS ECS, Chef—with practical experience across databases (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Cassandra) and multiple application stacks to ensure reliable video, mobile, and OTT delivery at scale. Known for turning manual processes into reproducible automation and for on-call leadership of critical systems, he also brings Java development and big data support experience from earlier roles. Based in Washington, DC, Brian pairs strong communication and mentoring skills with a track record of operationalizing complex systems for public media audiences.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science and Engineering Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelors of Science and Engineering Computer Science & Engineering at University of Connecticut
Github Skills (12)
spring7
spring-boot7
java6
html5
storybook2
pbs2
elastic-container-registry2
dockerhub1
api-gateway1
redis1
cluster-mode1
elasticache1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
brianmlink/brianmlink.github.io
May 2025 - May 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
pbs-common/terraform-aws-rds-module
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
Standard PBS TF RDS Module
Contributions:4 reviews in 2 years 5 months
rds
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