Brian N.

👋 Hi, I'm Brian — a DevOps Engineer with 20+ Years in Infrastructure & Cloud My journey into DevOps began well before the term became mainstream. I started in IT and network engineering in the early 2000s, then transitioned into cloud infrastructure and automation as part of company-wide migrations to AWS. I’ve helped build and scale secure, cloud-native environments across more than 200 AWS accounts with $500K+ monthly spend, leading large-scale modernization projects from legacy systems to resilient, observable, and automated stacks. 🔧 What I Do Best Building Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Pulumi, and CloudFormation Designing and securing multi-account AWS orgs Creating robust CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and CodePipeline Reducing deployment times, improving team velocity, and eliminating bottlenecks Working across teams to align security, reliability, and developer speed 🚀 A Recent Win We reduced deployment time across all environments by nearly 50% by reworking CI/CD flows, parallelizing key jobs, and introducing better caching strategies. The result: faster releases, happier devs, and fewer overnight pages. ⚙️ Current Focus Areas I’ve been expanding my cloud expertise into GCP and Azure, while continuing to integrate AI tooling into my DevOps workflows to speed up troubleshooting, deployment validation, and automation. 🤝 Why You Want Me on Your Team I’ve been hands-on with both monoliths and microservices. I’ve guided orgs through infrastructure transformations. I lead with automation, thrive in fast-moving teams, and I’m obsessed with eliminating friction — whether it’s in your pipelines, cloud costs, or IAM policies. Let’s build something reliable, secure, and scalable — and have a little fun doing it.