Brooks Garrett
Customer Engineer at Google
Valdosta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolBrooks Garrett is a seasoned customer engineer and security-minded technologist with 16 years of experience helping Fortune 100 companies build and operate secure, scalable cloud platforms. He has led SRE and platform engineering teams, driven ISO 27001/CSA STAR compliance, and brought multiple SaaS products from conception to production while embedding security into operations and SDLC processes. Brooks combines hands-on infrastructure work—Kubernetes, Prometheus, ELK, Vault—with leadership roles across Google, Mandiant, Respond, and HPE, demonstrating repeated success migrating legacy services with zero downtime. Known for translating technical complexity into pragmatic policy, tooling, and team choices, he’s equally comfortable advising executives or tuning observability stacks. Outside work he’s applied long-term community service instincts as a former volunteer firefighter, reflecting a pragmatic, mission-oriented approach to reliability and incident response.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems, B.A., Enterprise Security, Information Systems, B.A., Enterprise Security at Georgia Southern University
ruby, c#, java, python, javascript (node)
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (86)
scheduling10
k8s10
charts10
helm10
kubernetes10
go10
docker10
mesos9
kubernetes-monitoring9
templating9
graphing8
methodology8
vault8
kubectl8
validation8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
brooksgarrett/RadioScrape
Mar 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:33 commits, 14 pushes in 1 year 3 months
brooksgarrett/website
Sep 2013 - Sep 2021
Contributions:1 release, 200 commits, 1 PR in 8 years 1 month
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