Brian Oldfield
Principal Site Reliability Engineer at NVIDIA
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Oldfield is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale, resilient systems across companies like NVIDIA, Cruise, Meta, and Socrata. He specializes in automation, orchestration, and resource management—having designed Python-based remediation and worker-pool systems on Kubernetes and GCP to reduce toil and improve uptime. Brian's background in physics and astrophysics informs a methodical, data-driven approach to problem solving and system design, evident in projects ranging from archival storage orchestration to distributed synthetic load generators. He blends deep operational expertise with software craftsmanship, moving projects from prototype to production and improving reliability at scale. Based in Seattle, he brings both startup agility and enterprise-grade discipline to SRE challenges.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Physics, Bachelor of Science Physics at University of WashingtonAstrophysics, Astrophysics at University of KentuckyAssociates of Science Physics, Associates of Science Physics at Highline College
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Github Skills (121)
git-repo9
thin9
recovery9
grafana9
serve9
botocore9
container-image9
monkey9
runit9
pipeline8
sdk8
backup8
pitr8
docker8
logging8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
boldfield/s3-encryption
Feb 2015 - Nov 2016
Thin wrapper around botocore S3 client which supports client side encryption compatable with ruby aws-sdk-resources
Contributions:32 commits, 5 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 9 months
aws-sdk-rubybotocoreclient-sideclient-side-encryptionruby
socrata-platform/consul-template-generator
Jul 2015 - Jan 2016
Wrapper around consul-template to prevent DDoS'ing your consul servers.
Contributions:25 commits, 16 PRs, 19 pushes in 6 months
ddospreventconsul-templateconsuling
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