Summary
Greg Herlein is a veteran software engineering leader with 14+ years of senior management experience building resilient teams and shipping production-grade systems across cloud, embedded, video, and telephony domains. Currently VP of Software Engineering at BrightSign in San Francisco, he oversees cloud, client, QA and DevOps while driving Kubernetes, AWS, and edge-NPU initiatives to bring AI to digital signage at scale. His career spans leadership roles at AWS and Cisco where he led architecture, SRE, and large cross-functional transformations from legacy stacks to modern microservices and observability platforms. A hands-on maker with roots in embedded Linux, amateur radio (KO6HAX), and early telephony/VoIP systems, he blends deep systems expertise with product and operational rigor. He’s known for scaling teams that “don’t break,” having repeatedly turned prototypes into reliable products and acquisitions. Greg’s background includes submarine nuclear engineering discipline and a history of international team leadership, giving him uncommon operational and technical breadth.
13 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Navy Nuclear Power Training
Chabot College