Dillon Browne
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Engineering resilient, scalable infrastructure for the AI era
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24h Response Time
Remote or On-Site
10+
Years Experience
50TB+
Daily Traffic
5TB+
Logs/Day
Trusted Technologies
Google Cloud
Cloudflare
DigitalOcean
Docker
Kubernetes
Red Hat
Terraform
Vault
Consul
Nomad
Fastly
Nginx
GitHub
GitLab
Jenkins
Google Cloud
Cloudflare
DigitalOcean
Docker
Kubernetes
Red Hat
Terraform
Vault
Consul
Nomad
Fastly
Nginx
GitHub
GitLab
Jenkins
CircleCI
Datadog
Grafana
Prometheus
Elastic
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Redis
MySQL
Apache Kafka
RabbitMQ
Python
Go
Node.js
Linux
TypeScript
Rust
CircleCI
Datadog
Grafana
Prometheus
Elastic
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Redis
MySQL
Apache Kafka
RabbitMQ
Python
Go
Node.js
Linux
TypeScript
Rust
Technical Expertise
Deep expertise across the modern infrastructure stack
DevOps Excellence & Platform Engineering
CI/CD
GitHub ActionsGitLab CIJenkinsArgoCDFluxCDTektonDrone CI
IaC
TerraformTerraform CloudTerraform EnterpriseHCP TerraformAnsibleCloudFormationPulumiAWS CDKCrossplane
GitOps
ArgoCDFluxCDRancher Fleet
Config Management
AnsibleChefPuppetSaltStack
Service Mesh & Networking
IstioLinkerdConsulConsul ConnectAWS App MeshEnvoy
HashiCorp Stack
VaultConsulNomadPackerWaypointBoundary
Key Achievements
- Designed CI/CD pipelines processing 1000+ deployments daily
- Reduced deployment time by 75% through automation
- Implemented GitOps for 100+ microservices
Multi-Cloud Architecture & FinOps
AWS
EKSLambdaEC2S3CloudFrontRDSDynamoDBSQS/SNSAPI GatewayStep FunctionsEventBridgeCloudWatchX-Ray
Azure
AKSFunctionsCosmos DBService BusLogic AppsApplication GatewayKey VaultMonitor
GCP
GKECloud RunBigQueryPub/SubCloud FunctionsFirestoreCloud CDN
Cloudflare
PagesWorkersR2D1KVDurable ObjectsQueuesStreamImagesVectorizeAI GatewayHyperdriveCloudflare CDNWAFZero TrustAccessGatewayTunnelWorkers AI
Key Achievements
- Architected CDN handling 50TB daily traffic
- Achieved 40% cost reduction through FinOps practices
- Designed 99.99% uptime multi-region architectures
- Migrated 200+ services to cloud-native architectures
Kubernetes at Scale
Platforms
EKSAKSGKERancherOpenShiftK3sMicroK8sNomad
Container Runtime
DockercontainerdCRI-OgVisorPodman
Package Management
HelmKustomizeCarvelOperator Framework
Scaling & Scheduling
HPAVPAKEDACluster AutoscalerKarpenterVolcano
Networking
CalicoCiliumWeaveFlannelMultusGateway API
Storage
Rook/CephLonghornOpenEBSPortworxCSI Drivers
Security & Policy
OPA/GatekeeperKyvernoFalcoPod Security StandardsNetwork Policies
Developer Tools
kubectlk9sLensTelepresenceSkaffoldTilt
Key Achievements
- Managed 500+ node production clusters
- Implemented zero-downtime deployment strategies
- Built custom operators for automated operations
AI Infrastructure & LLM Operations
LLM/AI Platforms
OpenAIAnthropic ClaudeAWS BedrockAzure OpenAIGoogle Vertex AI
Agent Frameworks
LangChainCrewAIAutoGenMicrosoft Semantic KernelHaystack
Vector Databases
PineconeWeaviateQdrantChromaDBMilvusFAISS
ML Serving
KServeSeldon CoreBentoMLRay ServeTorchServe
MLOps
KubeflowMLflowWeights & BiasesDVCNeptune.ai
Infrastructure
GPU cluster managementNVIDIA operatorsdistributed training
Key Achievements
- Deployed RAG systems processing millions of documents
- Built AI agent orchestration platforms
- Optimized inference costs by 60% through intelligent caching
Observability & Performance Engineering
Elastic Stack
ElasticsearchKibanaLogstashBeats (Filebeat, Metricbeat, Heartbeat, Auditbeat, Packetbeat)Elastic APMElastic AgentFleetElastic CloudElastic Observability
Grafana Stack
GrafanaMimirLokiTempoGrafana AgentGrafana CloudGrafana FaroGrafana OnCallGrafana Phlare
Logging
ELK Stack (5TB+ daily)SplunkFluentdFluentbitVectorLokiLogstashFilebeat
Metrics & Time Series
PrometheusGrafanaMimirCortexThanosVictoriaMetricsInfluxDBMetricbeatTelegrafOpenTelemetry Collector
Tracing
JaegerZipkinAWS X-RayGoogle Cloud TraceTempoElastic APMOpenTelemetry
APM & Performance
DataDogNew RelicAppDynamicsDynatraceElastic APMGrafana FaroSentry
Data Collection
OpenTelemetryElastic AgentGrafana AgentBeatsTelegrafFluentdVectorPrometheus Exporters
Incident Management
PagerDutyOpsgenieVictorOpsGrafana OnCallAlertmanagerElastic Alerting
Load Testing & Chaos
K6GatlingJMeterLocustChaos MeshLitmusGremlin
Visualization & Dashboards
GrafanaKibanaDataDogTableauApache SupersetChronograf
Key Achievements
- Built ELK cluster ingesting 5TB+ logs daily
- Reduced MTTR by 60% through intelligent alerting
- Implemented chaos engineering practices
DevSecOps & Security Engineering
Container Security
Aqua SecurityTwistlockSysdig SecureAnchoreTrivyClairGrypePrisma Cloud
SAST/DAST
SonarQubeSnyk CodeCheckmarxVeracodeSemgrepCodeQLFortifyOWASP ZAP
Secrets Management
HashiCorp VaultAWS Secrets ManagerAzure Key VaultGCP Secret ManagerSOPSSealed SecretsDoppler1Password
Policy as Code
OPA/GatekeeperKyvernoHashiCorp SentinelCloud CustodianCheckovtfsecTerrascan
Runtime Security
FalcoTraceeTetragonCiliumCalico EnterpriseAppArmorSELinux
Compliance & Scanning
Chef InSpecOpenSCAPProwlerScoutSuiteCloudSploitDependency-TrackGrypeSBOM tools
SIEM/SOAR
Splunk Enterprise SecurityELK SecurityWazuhTheHiveCortex XSOARSecurity Onion
Vulnerability Management
SnykAqua TrivyGrypeNessusQualysRapid7NucleiOWASP Dependency-Check
Zero Trust & IAM
Cloudflare Zero TrustBeyondCorpOktaAuth0KeycloakAWS IAMAzure ADSPIFFE/SPIRE
Supply Chain Security
SigstoreCosignin-totoSLSANotaryTUFSBOM generationArtifact signing
Key Achievements
- Implemented shift-left security in CI/CD pipelines
- Reduced CVE remediation time by 80% through automation
- Achieved SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 compliance
- Built zero-trust architecture for 500+ services
Ready to Scale Your Infrastructure?
Let's discuss how I can help architect and build resilient, scalable systems for your team
Technology Stack
Comprehensive expertise across modern cloud-native technologies
Languages
GoPythonTypeScriptJavaScriptRustJavaBashPowerShellHCL
Cloud Providers
AWSAzureGCPCloudflareDigitalOceanLinodeVultr
Cloudflare Platform
PagesWorkersR2D1KVDurable ObjectsQueuesStreamImagesVectorizeAI GatewayHyperdriveWorkers AIWAFZero TrustAccessGatewayTunnelDNSLoad BalancingArgoSpectrum
HashiCorp Stack
TerraformTerraform CloudTerraform EnterpriseVaultConsulNomadPackerWaypointBoundaryVagrantHCP
Kubernetes Ecosystem
kubectlHelmKustomizeArgoCDFluxCDIstioLinkerdCalicoCiliumKEDAPrometheus OperatorCert-ManagerExternal DNSIngress NGINXGateway APIOPA/GatekeeperKyvernoFalcoLensk9s
Fastly Platform
Fastly CDNCompute@EdgeImage OptimizerLoad BalancerWAFDDoS ProtectionReal-time StatsLog StreamingVCLEdge DictionaryEdge ACL
Orchestration
KubernetesDocker SwarmNomadApache MesosECSRancher
IaC Tools
TerraformAnsiblePulumiCloudFormationCDKCrossplane
CI/CD
GitHub ActionsGitLab CIJenkinsCircleCITravisDroneArgoCDFluxCDTekton
Databases
PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBCassandraRedisElasticsearchDynamoDBConsul KVetcd
Message Queues
KafkaRabbitMQAWS SQS/SNSAzure Service BusNATSCloudflare Queues
CDN/Edge Computing
Cloudflare CDNFastly CDNAkamaiAWS CloudFrontAzure CDNCompute@EdgeWorkers
Security & Secrets
HashiCorp VaultConsulSOPSSealed SecretsOPAFalcoSnykAquaTwistlockCloudflare WAFFastly WAFAWS Secrets ManagerAzure Key VaultGCP Secret Manager
DevSecOps
SonarQubeSnykCheckmarxVeracodeTrivyGrypeSemgrepCodeQLOWASP ZAPFortifyAqua SecuritySysdigPrisma CloudClairAnchore
Policy & Compliance
OPA/GatekeeperKyvernoHashiCorp SentinelCheckovtfsecTerrascanChef InSpecOpenSCAPProwlerScoutSuiteCloud Custodian
Runtime Security
FalcoTraceeTetragonCiliumCalico EnterpriseAppArmorSELinuxSysdig Secure
SIEM & Threat Detection
Splunk Enterprise SecurityELK SecurityWazuhTheHiveCortex XSOARSecurity OnionNuclei
Supply Chain Security
SigstoreCosignin-totoSLSANotaryTUFSBOM toolsDependency-Track
Service Mesh
IstioLinkerdConsul ConnectAWS App MeshEnvoyTraefik
Monitoring & Observability
PrometheusGrafanaElasticsearchKibanaLogstashBeatsElastic APMGrafana AgentMimirLokiTempoELKDataDogNew RelicCloudflare AnalyticsFastly Real-time StatsJaegerZipkinOpenTelemetryFluentdVectorThanosCortex
Impact & Results
Proven track record of delivering measurable results
10+
Years of Engineering Excellence
50TB+
Daily Traffic Managed
5TB+
Daily Log Processing
40%
Average Cost Reduction
99.99%
Uptime Achieved
1000+
Deployments Automated Daily
200+
Services Migrated to Cloud
24/7
System Reliability
Engineering Philosophy
Modern practices for reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure
Infrastructure as Code First
- 100% reproducible infrastructure
- Version controlled everything
- Immutable infrastructure patterns
Security by Design
- Zero-trust architecture
- Secrets management automation
- Compliance as code
AI-Augmented Operations
- Intelligent alerting & anomaly detection
- Predictive scaling
- Automated incident response
Cost-Optimized Engineering
- FinOps best practices
- Resource right-sizing
- Spot instance optimization
Want to build infrastructure that scales with your business?
Let's Build TogetherServices & Capabilities
Comprehensive solutions for modern infrastructure challenges
Cloud & Infrastructure
- Cloud migration strategy & execution
- Multi-cloud architecture design
- Disaster recovery planning
- High-availability system design
DevOps & Automation
- CI/CD pipeline architecture
- Infrastructure as Code implementation
- GitOps transformation
- Development environment standardization
Kubernetes & Containers
- Kubernetes cluster design & deployment
- Container orchestration strategy
- Service mesh implementation
- Microservices migration
AI/ML Operations
- LLM infrastructure setup
- AI agent development & deployment
- Vector database architecture
- ML model serving pipelines
Observability & Reliability
- Monitoring & alerting design
- Performance optimization
- Incident response automation
- SRE practice implementation
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Location
Austin, Texas