Summary
Dan Brown is a Principal Architect with over two decades of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and optimising web services and distributed systems, currently focused on enterprise architecture at IBM after senior leadership roles at HashiCorp. He specialises in high-availability, highly scalable platforms and has led large, globally distributed teams through data centre-to-cloud migrations and IaaS transformations. A pragmatic DevOps advocate and frequent industry speaker, he blends hardware and software design to deliver resilient production services and iterative improvements via CI/CD. His background spans pre-sales, professional services, and customer success, giving him a rare perspective that connects technical architecture to customer outcomes. Comfortable with on-site consultancy worldwide, he’s known for translating complex operational requirements into practical, supportable systems.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer