Summary
Dave Brown is a System Architect with 19 years’ experience building and automating resilient infrastructure across finance and internet industries, currently based in Saitama, Japan. He blends deep Unix/Linux/Solaris expertise with practical software development skills to simplify complex operations—often automating tasks teams didn’t know needed automation. His background includes low-latency trading systems at Nomura, large-scale Solaris/SmartOS migrations and cost-saving storage projects at GMO, and recent architecture roles including Bank of America and independent consulting. Known for modernizing configuration management (moving teams from legacy tools to Git/GitLab), he also writes OS-independent hardware monitoring and packaging tooling to prevent outages. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, auditable solutions that reduce human error and lifetime operational cost.
19 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer