Brian West
Senior DevOps Engineer at Innovatus Technology Consulting
McKinney, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBrian West is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 8 years of experience architecting IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and resilient cloud infrastructure, currently driving DevOps practices at Innovatus Technology Consulting. He built and improved Azure Pipelines and automation across multiple Microsoft teams, enabling secure, STIG-compliant deployments and private artifact publishing for air-gapped clouds. Brian’s background includes large-scale consulting for clients such as the US Army, Volkswagen Automotive Cloud, and major financial and healthcare organizations, where he automated testing on nested VMs and stabilized mission-critical engagements. A mentor and Microsoft alumnus based in McKinney, Texas, he combines deep PowerShell/Bash expertise with containerization and monitoring to streamline developer workflows and reduce lead times. Notably, he has hands-on experience producing secure build agents and orchestrating subscription and image requirements that bridge platform engineering and operational security.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Diploma AP Calculus and Biology, Advanced Diploma AP Calculus and Biology at Loudoun Valley High SchoolInformation Technology, Information Technology at George Mason UniversityIndependent Research, Independent Research at L’abri (Huemoz, Switzerland)
Github Skills (20)
pester10
testing10
tdd10
mocking10
bdd10
powershell10
stig9
azure9
arm9
microsoft7
microsoft-azure7
automation7
visual-studio-code4
kubernetes3
debugging3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
brianwest/GhCloudOps
Mar 2025 - Mar 2026
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 year
brianwest/Pester
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Pester is the ubiquitous test and mock framework for PowerShell.
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
testingpowershellpestermocksmocking
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