Summary
Brian T is a Senior DevOps Solutions Engineer based in San Jose with 12 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native infrastructure and automation. He cut his teeth compiling Linux kernels on Gentoo as a teenager, which evolved into a career focused on trimming technical debt, automating toil, and driving cost savings. Brian has led migrations and multi-account AWS reference architecture implementations, built PCI-compliant environments from scratch, and repeatedly reduced operational complexity to net-negative lines of infrastructure code. He’s comfortable across the stack—databases, CI/CD, networking, and security—and has a track record of delivering one-click production deploys and large-scale migrations from on‑prem to cloud. Unusually for an engineer of his level, he started in visual effects and pipeline tooling, bringing a creative, tool-building mindset to reliability engineering. At startups and established teams alike he’s the first hire who can both architect strategy and roll up his sleeves to implement it.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Animation & Visual Effects, BFA, Animation & Visual Effects at Academy of Art University