Brian Pitts Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, GA, US

San Mateo, California, US

In 2021, I joined SurveyMonkey to build an embedded SRE team supporting the eight development teams responsible for the core product. I served as the team’s technical lead and helped my manager define our approaches and drive execution.In 2023, my team moved to SurveyMonkey’s central Infrastructure organization. There, we acted as an enabling force for all.

San Francisco, CA, US

I took a mixed SRE and management role in a newly-formed team. As an SRE I supported over 30 services, including mozilla.org and MDN, primarily running on Kubernetes in AWS. As a manager I lead hiring, built out my team’s practices and roadmap, and coached my team members.

San Francisco, CA, US

I was part of a global team responsible for the many services used to create Firefox and support its hundreds of millions of users. I served as primary SRE for 6 services, working closely with their developers to handle their infrastructure needs. Additionally, I focused on several areas:Product Initiatives:· Paired with a developer to write and launch a.

San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, California, US

I was part of a small team responsible for the complex infrastructure of one of the world’s largest ticketing platforms. I assisted developers in designing and deploying new products and features while maintaining stability and capacity to handle traffic for high-demand events.Representative projects included:· Partnered with Platform team in design and.

San Francisco, California, US

New York City, New York, US

Work with developers in Nashville, London, and Melbourne to ensure that lonelyplanet.com can efficiently deliver a stable and fast product to travelers. Practice infrastructure as code and test driven development at all layers of our stack, from Fastly config to individual chef cookbooks.

Columbia, MO, US

Responsible for research computing resources in the Computer Science department, Informatics Institute, and Digital Humanities Commons; this included systems for interactive and batch computation, visualization, and web hosting. Focused heavily on building rapport with the users I supported. Supervised part-time junior sysadmins.

Menlo Park, CA, US

Part of the DevOps team managing a cloud communications platform. Handled product releases, testing them, deploying them, monitoring them, upgrading them, or rolling them back. And most of all, automating them! Worked at a startup's pace with coworkers distributed acrosss three continents.

Administer servers and SANs in Georgia and Pennsylvania. Lead implementation of virtualization (kvm), monitoring (nagios, collectd), and configuration management (puppet). Help maintain the uptime of over 100 production and development websites running on nginx, apache, mod_perl, tomcat. postgres, and oracle. Assist DBAs and developers by packaging.

Administered web software stack including Linux, Apache, lighthttpd, and MySQL. Developed and maintained custom Perl and Ruby applications. Developed extensions for existing PHP applications.

Atlanta, GA, US

Student worker in the Linux Administration, Integration & Web Development group. Performed system administration duties for several digital library projects. Developed solutions to meet the needs of researchers and developers. Technologies worked with included clustering (OpenSSI), digital preservation (LOCKSS), web crawling (Heritrix), and GIS (OpenLayers.

One of five IT employees for Emory's student newspaper. Assisted with purchasing and personnel decisions. Led training and documentation efforts. Provided technical support for the business office and newsroom. Administered Linux servers and OS X servers and workstations. Projects implemented include fibre channel SAN, directory services, offsite backups.

Ma, Political Science

Ba, Political Science, Computer Science