Julian Hirn
Lead Site Reliability Engineer - FinOps at DraftKings Inc.
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulian Hirn is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer specializing in FinOps, currently driving cloud cost optimization and policy work at DraftKings to ensure peak‑time reliability for millions of users during major sporting events. With 11 years of experience across cloud technologies, software development, and security, he combines hands‑on AWS & Kubernetes automation with mentoring and cross‑organizational strategy to align engineering investments with business goals. His background includes building serverless cloud‑security tooling at BCG and revenue‑impacting product work at TripAdvisor, reflecting a blend of security, product and reliability engineering. Globally experienced from Stockholm to Shanghai and now based in Boston, he brings a multicultural perspective to scalable systems and cost-aware infrastructure design.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Concentration in Cyber Operations, Computer Science, Concentration in Cyber Operations at Northeastern University
English, French, Swedish, Chinese
Github Skills (47)
goose9
aws9
tencent-cloud9
azure8
serverless8
compliance8
management8
gcp8
terraform8
dsl8
cloud-computing8
null-safety7
kubernetes7
emacs-lisp7
emacs7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Nineluj/cloudcrackr
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:57 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Nineluj/py-waf
Apr 2020 - May 2020
App Agnostic Reverse-proxy Style Web Application Firewall
Contributions:44 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
reverse-proxyweb-application-firewall
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