Brian Merrell Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Built out key components of a new, automated deployment and operations platform at Oomnitza using Terraform and Ansible on AWS. Our platform supports hundreds of instances, allowing low touch deployment and management of customer instances with maximal uptime and detailed monitoring and alerting. I was instrumental in migrating hundreds of customers across AWS accounts, preserving data integrity and unique customer assets and configurations.Currently building out exciting new additions to our platform with technologies such as Kubernetes, AWS Sagemaker, and Hashicorp Vault.--- About Oomnitza ---Modern ITAM for hardware and software.Our platform improves asset visibility, automation, compliance, and accuracy for complete enterprise technology management.Oomnitza is a modern ITAM platform for complete enterprise technology management across hardware and software. We deliver comprehensive asset visibility, automation, and compliance for today’s ever-changing enterprise.At the core, running ITAM without data accuracy is pointless. We improve the quality of your hardware and software asset data (quickly) so your business can move faster and more efficiently.

I co-founded BelugaLock with the mission of providing reliable and secure infrastructure to help connect smart contracts and other blockchain services with decentralized information from the off-chain world.Though description my company invites a trip down the blockchain rabbit hole, I gained universally valuable skills and experience through my time leading this small startup. My responsibilities included cloud architecture design, platform development, project planning and management, recruiting, and business development.Leveraging my Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps experience, I led a team of two developers while designing and implementing an infrastructure as a service platform on AWS. My company offered highly available infrastructure capable of reliably delivering trusted data to consumers on the blockchain. We ultimately won second place in a competition for infrastructure reliability, nearly securing a contract to participate in the nascent Chainlink Oracle network of blockchain data providers.Grateful for the opportunity I had in following a passion and creating my own company, I look forward to applying the skills and experience I gained as I return to a more conventional SRE role.Those curious about the blockchain technology I was working with can learn more at https://chain.link

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Joining the rest of the DreamBox technology organization on a journey transitioning from a more traditional SDLC to a true DevOps model inspired by Google's Site Reliability Engineering methodology, I received a title change and promotion.In this role, I worked on developing a new cloud-native platform (PaaS) that heavily featured the HashiCorp suite of tools. I also made critical contributions in migrating our legacy applications to the new platform.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Fulfilling a combination of responsibilities across the roles Operations Engineer and Platform Engineer, I contributed to the evolution and maintenance of DreamBox's platform and core infrastructure. Additionally, I took part in a critical on-call rotation, triaging and resolving production issues.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Implemented and managed HA/FT cloud-based infrastructure, supported development teams in deploying application code, and worked to automate anything and everything.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Responded to application outages, triaged production system issues, assisted with windows-based system and user administration. Assisted with infrastructure automation and application migration to Amazon Web Services.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Assisted clients with technical support related to the Apex Learning platform. Helped educate and empower users to be self sufficient and use our product effectively and efficiently.

Freelance front-end web development.

Researched, cataloged, and wrote about public and paid APIs and their associated platforms.