Brad Kramer Email & Phone Number

Scottsdale, AZ, US

Miami, FL, US

Providing consulting services in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Software Engineering, CloudOps/DevOps/DevSecOps/AIOps, and FinOps. Focus areas on Cloud (AWS & Azure), Cloud cost optimization, vendor cost optimization, scaling growth orgs, and lean operations. I also provide coaching and mentoring services.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Led a matrixed global team of 150+ software engineers in optimizing cloud and infrastructure costs, defining a data engineering (AI/ML) strategy, reducing the number of significant customer impacting events, and.
• Led through an organizational restructuring followed by a significant lean optimization.
• Prepped organization for exit via acquisitionKey Accomplishments
• Reduced AWS cloud expenditure by 25% ($1.4M on a spend of $5.6M) and reduced overall annualized engineering expenditure by 45% ($4.5M on a spend of $10M) within two quarters.
• Developed and executed a strategy to migrate legacy monolithic Python 2 codebase to Python 3 while extracting core functionality into Go and TypeScript microservices.
• Developed and executed a strategy to migrate from manual testing to modern continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) paradigms.

• Transformed EngOps and DevOps models from “over the wall” to “owner-operator,” requiring intensive training funded through AWS’s Learn to Earn program for VC backed companies.
• Realigned engineering organization into functional verticals that delineated responsibilities, and shaped thought leadership by introducing mental models, design documents, and design reviews.
• Partnered with HR to introduce clear career progression ladders, market competitive compensation bands, and annual reviews featuring SMART goal setting/tracking.
• Led engineering organization through multiple rounds of lean optimizations, C-suite leadership changes, and significant periods of financial uncertainty.Key Accomplishments
• Achieved annualized 50% ($2M) reduction in cloud costs by developing cloud infrastructure and third-party vendor relationships.
• Contributed net annual savings of 35% ($1.5M) by championing and delivering the re-platforming of monolithic system architecture to containerized microservices utilizing AWS Lambda, AWS ECS, MongoDB, Graph QL, and.

Singapore, Singapore, SG

• Built and led an organization of 300+ engineers across several diverse product engineering verticals, including: Grab for Business, real-time communication platforms (AI chatbots, VOIP, SMS), marketing segmentation.
• Drove AWS/Azure multi-cloud strategy and negotiated significant discounts on services through AWS’s enterprise discount program (EDP/PPA).
• Operationalized a 400-person (5%) reduction in force during fund-raising headwinds and a 70% loss of transactions due to COVID lockdowns in Southeast Asia.Key Accomplishments
• Introduced stability-enhancing operational excellence processes including postmortem reviews, action item tracking, root cause analysis, and mitigation strategies across Grab and its subsidiaries to lower customer.
• Cut annualized AWS and cloud infrastructure costs by 60% ($100M).
• Reduced software vulnerabilities over 50% by partnering with Grab’s CISO to launch an operating system engineering organization, introduce standard build practices, and reduce reliance on inherited legacy third party.

Seattle, WA, US

• Led an 85+ person organization responsible for product definition, architecture, and delivery of massive-scale service-oriented platforms supporting five verticals: Catalog Services, Front End Services, Amazon Device.
• Built Alexa Video’s engineering and operational culture, worked across Alexa’s ecosystem to influence product roadmaps, and drove AI/ML requirements.Key Accomplishments
• Launched the Echo Show, an industry unprecedented voice-forward, screen-based Alexa-powered user experience complete with a catalog of over 5 million titles of content including live broadcasts.
• Spearheaded and launched support for Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and over 50 streaming and cable providers on the Alexa Video platform across a population of over 50 million+ global end users.
• Launched internationalization capabilities of Alexa Video into Asia and Australia/New Zealand.

Seattle, WA, US

• Directed a 70-person organization across four geographies (Seattle, N. Virginia, Dublin, and Sydney) managing end-to-end delivery of the RDS console control plane and operational services.
• Delivered increased scalability, elasticity, and availability in support of a business driving $3B+ in annual revenue and multiple millions of database instances worldwide.
• Led senior executive business reviews, contributing thought leadership on subject matter such as architecture, strategy, operational excellence, and deployment automation.Key Accomplishments
• Championed and built an AWS Database Services presence in Sydney, Australia from the ground up, as the AWS customer base began demanding 24x7 English-speaking support for critical workloads.
• Led global launch operationalization strategy, planning, and execution for RDS Aurora and Data Migration Service (DMS).
• Built a 12-member TS-SCI cleared engineering team to construct, implement, operationalize, and provide ongoing SCIF support for an air-gapped AWS cloud supporting C2S.

Irvine, CA, US

South San Francisco, California, US

Boca Raton, Florida, US

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Boston, MA, US

CA

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Bsba, Information Systems

Mba, International Business