Mike Brown
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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SeniorMike 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
Github Skills (14)
ansible-inventory9
terraform4
digitalocean3
ansible3
terraform-provider3
terraform-module3
backend3
kubernetes2
typescript1
javascript1
observability1
aws1
nodejs1
k8s1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mdbdba/k3d-obs
Jul 2022 - May 2025
small k8s cluster to be used for observability demos.
Contributions:189 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
k8sobservability
mdbdba/kind-obs
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:102 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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