Julian Hirn
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at DraftKings Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts, 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.
10 years of coding experience
3 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 (37)
null-safety9
vault8
secrets7
lisp7
encryption6
chat6
security6
golang5
go5
signal5
linux5
windows5
hashicorp-vault5
messenger4
electron4
Programming languages (9)
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
proxyapplication-firewallagnosticsecurityweb-application
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