Brian Tomlinson
Senior Manager, Cloud at thatgamecompany
Menifee, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Tomlinson is a Senior Manager, Cloud and polyglot software architect with 15 years of experience designing secure, repeatable, and data-driven infrastructure from single apps to fully automated data centers. He blends hands-on engineering and people-first leadership, having led build & release engineering and live operations teams at ThatGameCompany and Singularity 6 after a deep tenure building container and transformation solutions at Red Hat. Comfortable across languages and platforms, he favors simple, future-proof patterns that enable operational excellence and measurable outcomes. A former founder and CTO-level practitioner, he brings entrepreneurial grit and end-to-end ownership—from requirements and architecture to deployment and maintenance. He’s a Linux lover and FOSS advocate who pairs practical production experience with a knack for translating complex problems into straightforward solutions. Based in Menifee, CA, he also brings uncommon discipline and leadership shaped by eight years of prior service in the U.S. Army.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
CEFR Level B1 Norwegian Bokmål, CEFR Level B1 Norwegian Bokmål at Lingu Norge ASDiploma High School, Diploma High School at California State Department of EducationSpanish Spanish Language, Spanish Spanish Language at Cypress CollegeAA Software Development Technology, AA Software Development Technology at ITT-Technical InstituteA1 Completion. Norwegian Bokmål, A1 Completion. Norwegian Bokmål at Sola Voksenoplæring Senter
English, Spanish, Norwegian
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Github Skills (110)
linux8
adobe-brackets8
vivaldi8
container-cop8
vulcan7
elm7
openstack7
openshift7
concourse7
command-line7
redhat7
continuous-integration7
software-packaging6
runc6
fedora-coreos6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
darthlukan/bct
Mar 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 25 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 1 month
darthlukan/pysys
Oct 2011 - Jun 2015
Contributions:54 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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