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
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?
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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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Email
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Location
Austin, Texas