Summary
Brian Shef is a Staff Release Manager and seasoned technical program leader with 11 years of experience orchestrating CI/CD, release pipelines, and resilient platform engineering across startups and scale-ups. He blends deep hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, and full-stack systems design with human-centric Agile coaching to help teams deliver high-quality products rapidly and predictably. At LTK he progressed from DevOps release manager to technical program manager and enterprise platform engineer, driving developer efficiency, automation, and SLO-driven reliability before moving to Aurora. A Certified Professional Scrum Master, he pairs modern product-driven management and systems thinking to untangle complex dependencies and enable push-button deployments at scale. Based in Grand Prairie, Texas, he’s as comfortable authoring deployment automation as he is mentoring teams in Lean and XP practices, often surfacing operational improvements that reduce risk while speeding delivery.
11 years of coding experience