Brian Smith
Principal SRE - Team Lead at Red Hat
Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Smith is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer and team lead with decades of IT experience who now focuses on building resilient, FedRAMP-compliant cloud platforms at Red Hat. He architects and operates regulated AWS and GovCloud environments, led the FedRAMP ATO/JAB SSP effort, and has scaled SRE teams while codifying SOPs and runbooks to make 24/7 reliability repeatable. Comfortable across Linux, Kubernetes, Terraform, Concourse, and the major clouds, he combines hands-on incident response with long-term architectural remediation of single points of failure. Earlier roles show a pattern of founding DevOps practices—migrating large repos, selecting CI/CD solutions, and automating platform pipelines—so he routinely turns fragmented systems into automated, auditable platforms. Outside work he’s an avid reader and amateur craftsman, bringing a practical, detail-oriented mindset to both technical design and team culture.
6 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Information Technology, B.S. Information Technology at Franklin UniversityCanal Winchester
Github Skills (57)
continuous-deployment10
operator10
monitoring10
tooling10
kubernetes10
observability10
grafana10
openshift10
prometheus10
multi-cluster10
thanos10
deploying9
kubernetes-rbac8
ubi8
upstream7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
stolostron/klusterlet-addon-controller
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 162 commits, 96 PRs in 1 year 4 months
stolostron/multicluster-observability-operator
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
Operator for Multi-Cluster Monitoring with Thanos.
Contributions:3 reviews, 106 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 7 months
cluster-monitoringmulti-clusteropen-cluster-managementobservabilityoperator
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