Bright Fulton
Manager, Production Engineering at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBright Fulton is a seasoned production engineering manager with 17 years of experience building and operating large-scale, reliable systems across startups and enterprise teams. Currently leading Production Engineering at Meta after executive and director-level platform roles at Upserve, he combines hands-on infrastructure engineering with cross-functional leadership to improve performance, security, and uptime. His background spans security-focused engineering at VeriSign and SecureWorks to product-facing ops at Upserve, giving him a strong lens for both risk mitigation and developer velocity. A hands-on coder earlier in his career, he contributed backend work to an open-source Ruby Docker client, showing practical experience with container tooling and testing practices. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he pairs deep systems knowledge with a track record of scaling teams and platforms through periods of rapid growth. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic operator who turns complex distributed challenges into repeatable, auditable processes.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (10)
docker10
api10
apidoc10
dockers10
ruby10
testing9
versioning8
excon8
version-control8
management8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
upserve/docker-api
Jun 2013 - Oct 2018
A lightweight Ruby client for the Docker Remote API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Bright primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Docker API client. Their work included implementing container-related functionalities, such as recording VCRs for testing and adding methods for container operations (start, stop, kill, restart, export, wait). They also fixed warnings and updated the gem's version information.
apiruby-clientrubydockerdocker-remote-api
bfulton/regex-trigram-js
Sep 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 23 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 3 months
queryregular-expressionsindexesjavascriptregular
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