Bryan Brandau
Sr Director Marketing And Retail Media Network Engineering at Best Buy
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBryan Brandau is a seasoned technology leader with 14 years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale retail platforms for Best Buy, where he has risen to Sr. Director of Marketing and Retail Media Network Engineering. He specializes in cloud platforms, infrastructure engineering, and web operations—owning multi-million dollar P&Ls and leading insourcing, automation, and cost-reduction initiatives that scaled BestBuy.com’s cart, catalog, search, and commerce systems. Bryan blends strategic leadership with deep technical fluency in cloud, DevOps, and open-source tooling, having led migrations to AWS and built idempotent automation and monitoring stacks. Known for turning vendor-managed services into efficient internal platforms, he drives reliability, availability, and developer productivity across complex, high-traffic ecommerce systems. Based in Minneapolis, he brings a pragmatic, operator-first mindset from early roles supporting Geek Squad to senior platform leadership today. Colleagues cite his knack for simplifying operational complexity while empowering teams to ship resilient systems.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Associates of Arts Computer Studies, Associates of Arts Computer Studies at Joliet Junior College
Github Skills (41)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
agent462/sensu-cli
Mar 2013 - Dec 2019
A Sensu CLI for getting and deleting information from Sensu.
Contributions:188 commits, 19 PRs, 31 pushes in 6 years 10 months
devtoolsensucli
agent462/sensu-handler-awsdecomm
Jan 2013 - Mar 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 2 months
chef-serversensu-handlerhandlersensuchef
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