Summary
Brian Rogers is a Principal Software Engineer in Seattle with two decades of hands-on experience across native C/C++ and managed C# stacks, and over a decade of focused cloud and distributed-systems work at Microsoft. He architects and operationalizes cloud-scale infrastructure—leading bootstrapping, disaster recovery, edge computing, and hyperconverged platform projects—while serving as DRI for live site reliability and security/compliance. A pragmatic advocate of test-driven design, loose coupling, and measurable reliability, he has built massively distributed test frameworks and automated validation systems that informed platform decisions. He combines deep low-level systems knowledge with proven hiring and mentorship impact, and uniquely pairs bootstrap/bare-metal expertise with modern cloud service design.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Washington
English, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi