Brian Naylor
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Raleigh, North Carolina, Canada
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Top SchoolBrian Naylor is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with over 25 years in systems and storage engineering and a decade-plus focused on cloud-native and container storage. He has led architecture and development for NetApp Astra and contributed backend/cloud integration work to the Trident storage orchestrator—notably adding Azure NetApp Files support and resize logic—before moving to senior leadership roles at Google driving storage and AI workload readiness on GKE and Google Distributed Cloud. Brian blends deep kernel and OS-level experience (ONTAP, WAFL, FreeBSD) with modern cloud SDK integration, logging/observability improvements, and scalable orchestration design. Based in Raleigh, he pairs hands-on implementation chops with team leadership, and his track record shows a preference for tackling messy infrastructure problems where performance and reliability matter most.
10 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Transylvania University
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Github Skills (19)
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
go10
sdk10
azure10
orchestration10
nfs9
logging8
kubernetes7
kubernetes-pods7
ibm-watson6
jupyter-notebook6
watson-studio6
docker6
python6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NetApp/trident
Jul 2019 - Nov 2019
Storage orchestrator for containers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:8 commits, 4 comments, 1 issue in 3 months
Contributions summary:Brian's primary focus was on integrating Azure NetApp Files (ANF) into the Trident storage orchestrator. Their contributions included implementing support for ANF, integrating ANF resize logic, and adapting to upstream changes in the Azure SDK. Additionally, they enhanced the logging functionality and made improvements to the overall system architecture. This involved significant work with the Azure SDK and interacting with Azure services.
containersnetapp-publicorchestratorazure-blob-storagedocker
bnaylor/ipscromp
May 2020 - Feb 2023
Sackheads ipscromp util
Contributions:2 reviews, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 9 months
util
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