Kelly Brazil
Sr. Director, WW Security Infrastructure Archtects at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarKelly Brazil is a seasoned security sales engineering leader with 25+ years of experience guiding enterprise security strategy and scaling high-performance global teams across startups and large vendors. Currently Sr. Director of WW Security Infrastructure Architects at HPE, she has a track record of building and leading systems and sales engineering organizations through growth, acquisitions, and product transitions at companies including Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, and Juniper. Equally comfortable in startup settings, she has advised and led engineering at early-stage firms and helped drive go-to-market and technical adoption. An active open-source contributor based in San Francisco, she created widely used CLI and Python tools (jc, jello, jellex, jtbl) that simplify automation by converting diverse command-line outputs into structured JSON. Known for evangelizing emerging technologies, she combines deep field experience with hands-on tooling that improves automation and observability for security teams.
8 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (6)
command-line-interface10
text-parsing10
parsing10
python10
unit-testing9
entrypoint6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kellyjonbrazil/jc
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries. This allows piping of output to tools like jq and simplifying automation scripts.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 releases, 98 reviews, 3253 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kelly contributed to the jc project by adding parsers for various utilities and file types. They implemented a new email address schema and tests, as well as parsers for a timestamp string, a command line interface and the OpenVPN configuration. They also contributed by refactoring code by adding functionality to existing and deprecated parsers.
pythonparsersbash-scriptingserializecli
kellyjonbrazil/tldr
Jun 2020 - Jun 2021
đź“š Simplified and community-driven man pages
Contributions:20 commits, 20 pushes in 1 year 1 month
man-pagessimplifiedbuildermanualcommunity-driven
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