Summary
F O'brien is a Google Cloud software engineer and seasoned cloud-native architect with 11 years of experience designing and delivering secure, production-grade infrastructure for government and enterprise clients. He blends hands-on development (Java, Go, CUDA, Spring), IaC (Terraform, Landing Zones), and Kubernetes/GKE expertise to modernize applications and run GPU-accelerated ML workloads for defence and public sector programs. A repeat contractor across Canadian federal departments and an ex-Google L6 who won a VP-level Horizon award for Landing Zone work, he’s equally comfortable mentoring teams, leading delivery, and rolling up his sleeves in CI/CD and GitOps. His background includes open-source leadership in ONAP/ONAP-logging and deep contributions to cloud tooling, reflecting a pragmatic focus on secure, auditable cloud adoption. Notably, he pairs decades of JPA/Java core expertise with recent high-performance CUDA/LLM inference work, a rare combination that bridges enterprise systems and GPU ML ops.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford University School of Engineering
Bachelor’s Degree B. Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree B. Mathematics at Carleton University