Brian Watson
Software Engineer at Defense Unicorns
Cullowhee, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Watson is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in SRE, DevOps, and cloud-native platforms, currently building resilient systems at Defense Unicorns. He has a strong Azure and AWS background—operating Kubernetes and ECS clusters, implementing Terraform IaC, and establishing Prometheus and PagerDuty-driven monitoring and incident response. At Esri he bridged product engineering, QA automation, and reliability work, creating a pytest-based integration harness for ArcGIS Velocity and managing complex IoT and big-data workloads on Kubernetes. Trained in geography and GIS, he brings domain expertise in geospatial systems and reproducible infrastructure automation that helps translate environmental research needs into production-grade services. A lifelong learner based in Cullowhee, NC, he combines hands-on troubleshooting with a habit of building tools to automate repetitive tasks and improve platform observability.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming Certificate, Computer Science, Computer Programming Certificate, Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityMS, Geography, MS, Geography at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
German, Spanish, English
Github Skills (36)
javascript10
coding-conventions10
arcgis10
spatial-analysis10
data-management10
android10
web-development10
kubernetes9
python9
docker9
go9
scheduling8
aws8
pixel8
mesos7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
briantwatson/CCVItoolset
Nov 2014 - Jun 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 3 years 7 months
djarrard-zz/Python-AGS-Admin
Oct 2016 - Jan 2025
A scripted GIS server administration framework designed to batch execute ArcGIS for Server Admin API functions through Python
Contributions:2 PRs in 8 years 5 months
arcgisgispythonserver-administration
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