Josh Brand
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Sanity
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Brand is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale, production-critical systems from broadcast media to cloud-native SaaS. Based in Atlanta, he has driven migrations to AWS, containerized legacy stacks onto Kubernetes, and designed CI/CD and monitoring platforms that reduced downtime and improved developer feedback loops. His background spans hands-on ops roles at Turner and Rackspace through senior engineering at Chef and HashiCorp, and he currently applies that SRE expertise at Sanity while contributing to community projects like Habitat core plans for log and search stacks. Known for embedding with dev teams to deliver pragmatic automation and reliable deployments, he balances deep systems troubleshooting with long-term infrastructure strategy. An often-overlooked strength is his history of shipping complete observability and deployment toolchains that enable rapid product iteration across multiple data centers and high-traffic environments.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Networking Technology, Networking Technology at Gwinnett Technical CollegeAAS Computer Information Systems, AAS Computer Information Systems at Kaplan University
American Sign Language
Github Skills (18)
package-management10
package-manager-tool10
packager10
package10
package-manager10
bash9
elasticsearch8
elasticsearch-api8
logstash8
elasticsearchquery8
aws-elasticsearch8
amazon-elasticsearch8
postgresql8
bump7
configuration-management7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
habitat-sh/core-plans
Aug 2017 - Nov 2018
Core Habitat Plan definitions
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 21 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the development of Habitat package plans, specifically focusing on defining and updating configurations for various software packages such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash. They were responsible for version bumps, dependency management, and resolving startup issues. The user also added plans for PostgreSQL client components and made changes related to origin configurations and cleanup tasks.
planhabitatpackage-managerdefinitionspackages
ChefFurs/cheffurs.github.io
May 2015 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 9 years 6 months
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