Yevgeniy Brikman
Co-Founder at Atomic Squirrel
Ireland
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Top SchoolYevgeniy Brikman is a seasoned DevOps founder and author with 15+ years building and automating infrastructure for startups and large companies alike. As co-founder of Gruntwork and earlier Atomic Squirrel, he turned Infrastructure-as-Code and battle-tested automation into a commercial service used to deploy production systems quickly and reliably. He authored multiple O'Reilly books including Terraform: Up & Running and Fundamentals of DevOps, and maintains widely used open-source tooling and examples (Terragrunt, Terratest and numerous Terraform modules) that emphasize testing, CI/CD, and reproducible AMI-based deployments. A former Staff Engineer at LinkedIn, he blends hands-on engineering (Go, Terraform, Bash) with product and developer-experience thinking, and even contributes front-end work to community efforts like the OpenTF manifesto. Based in Ireland and Cornell-trained, he pairs deep technical craft with a practical obsession for automation and observability that reduces manual toil.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Marblehead High SchoolMaster of Engineering Computer Science, Master of Engineering Computer Science at Cornell University
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Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-aws-vault
Mar 2017 - Mar 2022
A Terraform Module for how to run Vault on AWS using Terraform and Packer
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:55 releases, 46 reviews, 227 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Yevgeniy primarily focused on the infrastructure and deployment aspects of the project. Their contributions involved creating and modifying shell scripts related to the setup and management of Vault on AWS, including initialization, unsealing, and integration with Consul. The user also worked on implementing automated tests and configuring examples for public and private Vault clusters, utilizing Terraform and Packer for infrastructure-as-code and AMI creation, respectively. Furthermore, the user implemented S3 as a storage backend and made changes to the CI/CD pipeline.
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gruntwork-io/bash-commons
Apr 2018 - Nov 2020
A collection of reusable Bash functions for handling common tasks such as logging, assertions, string manipulation, and more
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 releases, 23 reviews, 41 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Yevgeniy primarily contributed to the repository by developing and refining scripts for managing and automating infrastructure tasks. Their work focused on creating and enhancing bash scripts for common DevOps needs, including setting up installation processes and implementing unit tests. They also introduced mocking techniques for AWS and EC2 services, demonstrating a focus on testing and infrastructure automation, and built utilities for AWS interaction using bash.
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