Derek Brown Email & Phone Number

San Francisco , California , Us

Leading Plaid's Service and Network Foundation S&NF) team. My team is responsible for:- Re-imagining Plaid's network architecture for w/Istio and Cilium to reduce ingress/egress costs, latency, and provide telemetry and advanced routing features.- Developing and maintaining ergonomic interfaces and common abstractions, enabling product engineers to build services efficiently and reliably. - Driving bottoms-up reliability initiatives and programs that have reduced downtime ~30% YoY.- Reducing operating costs through performance and architecture optimization.

Washington, Dc, Us

- Researched and wrote a 9th Circuit appellate brief on behalf of a federal agency.- Prepared pleadings in civil cases on behalf of federal defendants.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

- Led Cloud Management XFN team (~15 engineers), responsible for defining cloud infrastructure policies and building services and tooling to improve ownership, security, and usability of our AWS and GCP infrastructure. - Architected Lacework’s Spark infrastructure. Developed services, tools, and metrics to facilitate Spark application development, deployment, and scaling on Kubernetes. - Kick-started and scaled the Cloud Efficiency team at Lacework. Eliminated >$1.6M/yr in waste spending through auditing and analysis. Drove efforts that accounted for a significant increase in product margin.- Intern Director - responsible for team matching, managing intern performance, and making sure they have the best possible experience!

Arlington, Va, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

- Member of Privacy Incident Manager Oncall (IMOC), the leadership team responsible for resolving privacy issues across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.- Technical lead for Meta's Data Infra Privacy Team, building frameworks and services to meet FTC and GDPR compliance.- Briefly responsible for ensuring newly-acquired companies (game studios) met Meta's privacy, security, and reliability requirements by leveraging Meta and Public Cloud infrastructure.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

- Technical lead for Meta's "Events & Escalations" team, which develops Meta's internal monitoring, alerting and notification system.- Responsible for setting technical direction, and scaling the team from two to seven engineers.- Developed a number of other observability services at Meta; ODS (Timeseries Database), OneDetection (detection system), and host/fleet health monitoring tools.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

- Collaborated with Professor Michael Hilton and Claire Le Goues to define learning objectives and goals for the course.- Created and presented a number of lectures, primarily around microservice architectures.- Was responsible for developing course assignments and grading scheme (https://cmu-17-356.github.io/Dronuts/).

San Francisco, California, Us

- Developed a full-stack application integrating Foreman and Netbox to automate provisioning and testing of systems in the lab environment.- Tested a number of cutting-edge components and systems in advance of being ordered for use in production datacenters.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

- Developed a new Business Intelligence (BI) tool to analyze global sales trends using internal sales data and market forecasts, and used it to create several complex data models of future revenue which were presented to the Red Hat Board of Directors.- Collaborated with open source contributors to create and maintain a large-scale developer dataset, which combines information from StackOverflow, GitHub, and numerous other reports to predict developer demographics and track technology adoption.- Proposed brand and product positioning strategies amongst developer communities for Red Hat’s OpenShift PaaS, and performed market research and analysis to corroborate user stories.

Durham, North Carolina, Us

- Supported critical infrastructure systems during Duke Health’s transition to EPIC electronic medical record as a Tier II Support Agent across a variety of applications and operating systems.- Assisted in construction and migration into the Duke Medical Pavilion datacenter, including writing patches for new network infrastructure, and racking and installing servers and associated power distribution units.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Cognitive Science

Doctor Of Law - Jd, Law