Brian Deuser Email & Phone Number

Fort Worth, TX, US

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Administrated, maintained, and optimized all non-production environments used for all testing efforts. Enabled self-service, enhanced health monitoring, wrote automation tools, and improved processes to consolidate.
• Saved company $50K in non-production hardware consolidation costs by fully decommissioning rarely used non-prod environment.
• Wrote Python application to automatically clean up disk space on all non-prod servers. Documented and promoted Auto-Nuke process, halving non-prod operational maintenance.
• Authored Slack-based alerting scripts to report health of all non-prod startup DB Restore processes, improving self-service and development cycle time.
• Monitored startup and performed triage and support requests for five non-prod environments, enabling end-to-end integration testing firm wide.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Primary Production Operational Support, and Release Specialist for Core Services, including options valuation, risk, trade, and position management. Spearheaded transformation of legacy.
• Implemented creation of first Kubernetes Core Services project covering on-prem and cloud clusters by using IAC, CI (Helm), and CD (Flux) best practices.
• Implemented Disaster Recovery procedures for site, node, and cluster outages in production, doubling speed to a recoverable open.
• Orchestrated usage of KEDA Cron to successfully minimize cloud compute costs during non-trading hours, resulting in cost savings in excess of $700K.
• Facilitated and implemented ChaosKube reliability and stability testing.
• Saved company $280K in production hardware consolidation costs by fully decommissioning used servers.

Chicago, Illinois

• Lead tester for Core Services including options valuations, risk, trade, and position management. Led regression, integration, and system test activities for more than 23 applications at approximately 50 releases per.
• Documented fully and transitioned non-automated test plans and QA procedures to Dev, successfully introducing and implementing “Dev Certified” process.
• Supported six environments (partial simulations of proprietary trading system) simultaneously, enabling critical real-world integration testing.
• Implemented environment health dashboards for all non-prod environments.

• Original 2013 Moto X, Moto E, Moto G and DROID families through 2016 Moto Z and Moto G class of devices, including all Android software upgrades.
• Authored best-in-class Fixed Pattern Stress (FPS) memory test which assessed system memory and performance results using specific real-world application scenarios.
• Optimized performance, while reducing material cost, by performing advanced memory tuning and RAM product portfolio planning which determined minimum RAM part size necessary per product.
• Drove closure of memory leaks detected on in-house stability rack testing systems and encountered by user trial participants by filing bugs with various development teams and coordinating solutions.
• Led full end-to-end inclusion of RAM part size reporting for all Motorola products, enabling correlations between RAM part size to product returns and other critical customer metrics.
• Completed Motorola’s first use of Android lowram API through extensive evaluation, testing, and refinement; shipped on 2015 Moto G, improving system stability by over 3x.

• Created benchmark targets, defined KPI tests, and improved browser performance across all 6 Webtop 1.0-2.0 products through benchmark refinements, defining failure criteria and engaging with development teams for full.
• Reduced Webtop-wide memory pressure by analyzing, testing, and tuning Android Low Memory Killer minfree values.
• Performed ad-hoc System and Integration testing on all Webtop products.

• Led over 10-25 engineers in creation of MIDP 2.1 TCK, JSR 82 TCK, MIDP 3.0 TCK, and Gatling. Created test cases, reviewed test cases and test code, and defined project delivery milestones.
• Authored and led LWT TCK, JSR 118 MIDP 2.1 TCK, JSR 82 TCK, and JSR 271 MIDP 3.0 TCK (~9000 tests), fulfilling JSR obligation to deliver Specification, Reference Implementation (RI) and TCK (Technology Compatibility.
• Reduced cost of conformance testing tools in entire industry, a Motorola strategic objective, as Inventor and Technical Requirements Manager of Gatling.
• Represented Motorola as member of Executive Committee (Java 2 ME) of Java Community Process, allowing Motorola drive industry’s Java technological roadmap.
• Completed JSR 271 MIDP 3.0 Final Approval Ballot and Final Release as Specification Lead for last 7 months of development by streamlining open issues in Expert Group and leading TCK and RI finalization.
• Eliminated usage of costly and unnecessary external Java test tools within Motorola, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in license fees.

System Test Lead, Network Interface Controller, MAP (Timeport P1088) - Motorola’s first Java smartphone.

Rolling Meadows, IL

• Author of Help file and Configuration Manuals
• Tested Use Cases

Ms, Computer Science, Software Engineering Specialization

Activities and Societies: Alpha Epsilon Pi

Bs, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Alpha Epsilon Pi