Brian Sorensen
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Fastly
Draper, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Sorensen is a Senior Software Engineering Manager and Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of experience building resilient, automated infrastructure across AWS, Twitch, Fastly, higher education, and the US Air Force Reserve. He combines hands-on SRE and network engineering expertise—99.99% uptime achievements and Python automation—to reduce downtime, streamline operations, and improve incident resolution. At AWS and Fastly he has led high-performing teams, driven security initiatives, and architected automation that measurably improved reliability and network performance. His background in the Air Force Reserve and university instruction adds operational discipline and a knack for translating complex technical concepts into practical training and documentation. Notably, he has applied scripting and automation beyond engineering—improving administrative workflows and training completion rates—showing a pragmatic focus on people and process as well as systems. Based in Draper, Utah, he blends cloud-scale leadership with deep networking chops and a record of measurable operational impact.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Information Systems, Master of Science - MS Information Systems at University of Utah - David Eccles School of BusinessThe University of UtahAssociate's degree Maintenance Production Management, Associate's degree Maintenance Production Management at Community College of the Air ForceFlorida International University
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
brianrclay/just-chillin
Apr 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 42 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
brianrclay/kyper-html
Mar 2020 - May 2022
For making HTML prototypes using Kyper styles and components.
Contributions:2 PRs, 45 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
cssstylesprototypeshtml-prototypes
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