Britt Houser
Senior Network Architect at Phreesia
Greeneville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBritt Houser is a Senior Network Architect with 12 years of hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale network and cloud infrastructures, currently driving network architecture at Phreesia from Greeneville, Tennessee. He brings deep expertise from a long tenure at Cisco, where he led solution testing for OpenStack, massively scalable data centers, and borderless networking while mentoring teams and building lab infrastructure. Comfortable across software, automation, and networking, Britt has practical DevOps experience contributing to OpenStack/Kolla—improving container specs, Dockerfiles, Ansible templates, and deployment documentation for production-ready cloud containers. He pairs rigorous troubleshooting skills (BGP/OSPF, L2/L3 protocols, QoS) with scripting and automation background (Puppet, Tempest, TCL/Perl/BASH) to deliver repeatable, secure deployments. Known for integrity and quality workmanship, he also has a track record of growing capabilities and processes—expanding lab environments and establishing coding and testing standards. That blend of deep networking pedigree and open-source container work makes him adept at bridging legacy network operations with modern cloud-native practices.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Dual Bachelors of Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Dual Bachelors of Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityMitchell High School
Github Skills (10)
ansible-galaxy10
docker10
openstack10
containerization10
dockers10
ansible10
documentation8
centos7
yaml6
python5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/kolla
Feb 2015 - Jun 2016
Kolla provides production-ready containers and deployment tools for operating OpenStack clouds. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Britt primarily contributed to the configuration and maintenance of the Kolla project's containerization efforts. They fixed formatting issues within the container specification files, ensuring correct rendering of nested lists. Additionally, they updated the documentation, specifically the quickstart guide for CentOS multinode deployments, to reflect current best practices. Further enhancements involved modifying Dockerfiles and Ansible templates related to running services within containers and security.
openstack
britthouser/imcsdk
Sep 2016 - Feb 2020
Python SDK for Cisco IMC
Contributions:15 pushes, 19 branches in 3 years 5 months
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