Mike Brown
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Angi
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Brown is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 9 years focused on building and operating observability platforms, currently driving Grafana LGTM stack and OpenTelemetry-based tracing at Angi. He blends deep operational experience from cloud migrations and database-intensive environments with hands-on tooling in Python, Go, Rust, Terraform, and Kafka to deliver reliable signal pipelines and automated dashboarding. His background spans leading database-to-cloud transitions, designing sampling strategies for trace accuracy, and creating dashtools to automate Grafana maintenance—showing a pragmatic focus on reducing toil. Based in Minneapolis, he pairs decades of systems and DBA roots with modern SRE practices to improve performance visibility and incident prevention across large distributed systems.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS MIS Math, BS MIS Math at Iowa State UniversityBS MIS, BS MIS at Iowa State University - Ivy College of Business
Github Skills (13)
ansible-inventory9
digitalocean3
ansible3
terraform-provider3
terraform3
backend2
kubernetes2
typescript1
javascript1
aws1
nodejs1
terraform-module1
infrastructure-as-code1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mdbdba/k3d-obs
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
small k8s cluster to be used for observability demos.
Contributions:152 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
mdbdba/kind-obs
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:102 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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