Brian Stevens Email & Phone Number

New York, US

Kansas City, MO, US

I founded Data Porters, LLC to provide various services to clients, including administration and troubleshooting of computing systems (including HPC clusters), networks, databases, storage systems (including large-scale storage systems for HPC clusters), and data backup systems, while also providing small-scale custom software development.

Los Angeles, CA, US

I helped Addressable adopt DevOps practices by redesigning and implementing a more modern AWS account structure, orchestrating cloud resources using Terraform, implementing automated code testing and deployments using GitHub Actions, and creating initial patterns for deploying containerized applications to Amazon ECS using Terraform and GitHub Actions. I.

Jersey City, NJ, US

I worked with a globally distributed team to design, implement, optimize, and maintain BlockFi’s AWS cloud infrastructure. Major projects included migrating from Ansible to Pulumi for management of cloud resources as well as migrating from CircleCI to GitHub Actions for CI/CD workflows. I was also heavily involved in implementing BlockFi's application.

Kansas City, Missouri, US

Kansas City, Missouri, US

As senior member of the Private Cloud Infrastructure & Operations group, I maintained and optimized Cerner's current on-premise cloud computing infrastructure, as well as participated in designing and implementing Cerner's future on-premise cloud computing services including IaaS, PaaS, and CaaS using technologies including OpenStack and Kubernetes.

Chicago, IL, US

I provided Solaris and Linux systems administration services as well as storage management, database administration, and application administration for primarily oil & gas exploration companies.

I was responsible for systems administration, end-user support, MySQL database administration, Oracle database administration, and Perl development and debugging. My primary responsibility at Active was to build and maintain the production equipment environment, which included Sun E220's, Sun E420's, a Sun E4500, a MetaStor storage array, multiple Linux.

Palo Alto, CA, US

I assisted in the deployment of Sun's Enterprise SyMON Manager, a remote monitoring and problem resolving tool. The purpose of this project was to ease the load on systems administrators as well as to centralize the management of many geographically diverse servers.

Palo Alto, CA, US

I was primarily responsible for the daily operations of Sun's internal web proxy servers. This maintenance included keeping all software up to date, analyzing and archiving log files, and configuring servers for maximum performance. I also performed an analysis and benchmark of several web proxy solutions.

Palo Alto, CA, US

I was a general systems administration consultant with a specialty in managing Sun's Enterprise 10000 servers. The E10000 was Sun's first server that supported dynamic system domains, dynamic reconfiguration, and alternate pathing. I assisted in the installation of several E10000 servers and consulted with several customers on system performance issues.

London, England, GB

B.Sc. Engineering, Electrical Speciality

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