Donovan Bray
Director, Security & DevOps at Kiavi
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorDonovan Bray is a seasoned engineering leader with 16 years of experience building scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure and leading DevOps, security, and quality engineering teams. Currently Director of Security & DevOps at Kiavi in San Francisco, he has driven platform resilience and compliance across an end-to-end mortgage marketplace that has originated billions in loans. He combines hands-on expertise in Ruby on Rails back ends, MySQL/Postgres/Redshift, Redis, Docker, and AWS with a strong background in systems operations, deployment automation, and audit-driven security (SSAE 16, PCI DSS). Donovan has repeatedly moved teams from fragile to robust—implementing horizontal scaling, CI/CD, and performance testing—while still shipping code and tooling himself. He brings a pragmatic, operational mindset from early career network and systems leadership in education to complex cloud-native architectures. Colleagues rely on him to translate compliance and security requirements into practical, scalable engineering solutions.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (87)
terraform10
shell10
graph10
zsh10
terraform-cloud9
hashicorp9
ruby-application9
declarative9
terraform-module9
infrastructure9
hcl9
devops9
aws9
infrastructure-as-code9
terragrunt9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
donnoman/cap-recipes
Feb 2011 - Feb 2014
Contributions:11 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years 1 month
recipesrubygemsbattle-testedbattleruby
donnoman/dotfiles
Sep 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
dotfilesholmanzsh
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