Dillon Browne

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Engineering resilient, scalable infrastructure for the AI era

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10+
Years Experience
50TB+
Daily Traffic
5TB+
Logs/Day

Technical Expertise

Deep expertise across the modern infrastructure stack

DevOps Excellence & Platform Engineering

CI/CD

GitHub ActionsGitLab CIJenkinsArgoCDFluxCDTektonDrone CI

IaC

TerraformTerraform CloudTerraform EnterpriseHCP TerraformAnsibleCloudFormationPulumiAWS CDKCrossplane

GitOps

ArgoCDFluxCDRancher Fleet

Config Management

AnsibleChefPuppetSaltStack

Service Mesh & Networking

IstioLinkerdConsulConsul ConnectAWS App MeshEnvoy

HashiCorp Stack

VaultConsulNomadPackerWaypointBoundary

Key Achievements

  • Designed CI/CD pipelines processing 1000+ deployments daily
  • Reduced deployment time by 75% through automation
  • Implemented GitOps for 100+ microservices

Multi-Cloud Architecture & FinOps

AWS

EKSLambdaEC2S3CloudFrontRDSDynamoDBSQS/SNSAPI GatewayStep FunctionsEventBridgeCloudWatchX-Ray

Azure

AKSFunctionsCosmos DBService BusLogic AppsApplication GatewayKey VaultMonitor

GCP

GKECloud RunBigQueryPub/SubCloud FunctionsFirestoreCloud CDN

Cloudflare

PagesWorkersR2D1KVDurable ObjectsQueuesStreamImagesVectorizeAI GatewayHyperdriveCloudflare CDNWAFZero TrustAccessGatewayTunnelWorkers AI

Key Achievements

  • Architected CDN handling 50TB daily traffic
  • Achieved 40% cost reduction through FinOps practices
  • Designed 99.99% uptime multi-region architectures
  • Migrated 200+ services to cloud-native architectures

Kubernetes at Scale

Platforms

EKSAKSGKERancherOpenShiftK3sMicroK8sNomad

Container Runtime

DockercontainerdCRI-OgVisorPodman

Package Management

HelmKustomizeCarvelOperator Framework

Scaling & Scheduling

HPAVPAKEDACluster AutoscalerKarpenterVolcano

Networking

CalicoCiliumWeaveFlannelMultusGateway API

Storage

Rook/CephLonghornOpenEBSPortworxCSI Drivers

Security & Policy

OPA/GatekeeperKyvernoFalcoPod Security StandardsNetwork Policies

Developer Tools

kubectlk9sLensTelepresenceSkaffoldTilt

Key Achievements

  • Managed 500+ node production clusters
  • Implemented zero-downtime deployment strategies
  • Built custom operators for automated operations

AI Infrastructure & LLM Operations

LLM/AI Platforms

OpenAIAnthropic ClaudeAWS BedrockAzure OpenAIGoogle Vertex AI

Agent Frameworks

LangChainCrewAIAutoGenMicrosoft Semantic KernelHaystack

Vector Databases

PineconeWeaviateQdrantChromaDBMilvusFAISS

ML Serving

KServeSeldon CoreBentoMLRay ServeTorchServe

MLOps

KubeflowMLflowWeights & BiasesDVCNeptune.ai

Infrastructure

GPU cluster managementNVIDIA operatorsdistributed training

Key Achievements

  • Deployed RAG systems processing millions of documents
  • Built AI agent orchestration platforms
  • Optimized inference costs by 60% through intelligent caching

Observability & Performance Engineering

Logging

ELK Stack (5TB+ daily)SplunkFluentdVectorLoki

Metrics

PrometheusGrafanaMimirCortexThanosVictoriaMetrics

Tracing

JaegerZipkinAWS X-RayGoogle Cloud TraceTempo

APM

DataDogNew RelicAppDynamicsDynatrace

Incident Management

PagerDutyOpsgenieVictorOps

Testing

K6GatlingJMeterLocustChaos MeshLitmus

Key Achievements

  • Built ELK cluster ingesting 5TB+ logs daily
  • Reduced MTTR by 60% through intelligent alerting
  • Implemented chaos engineering practices

DevSecOps & Security Engineering

Container Security

Aqua SecurityTwistlockSysdig SecureAnchoreTrivyClairGrypePrisma Cloud

SAST/DAST

SonarQubeSnyk CodeCheckmarxVeracodeSemgrepCodeQLFortifyOWASP ZAP

Secrets Management

HashiCorp VaultAWS Secrets ManagerAzure Key VaultGCP Secret ManagerSOPSSealed SecretsDoppler1Password

Policy as Code

OPA/GatekeeperKyvernoHashiCorp SentinelCloud CustodianCheckovtfsecTerrascan

Runtime Security

FalcoTraceeTetragonCiliumCalico EnterpriseAppArmorSELinux

Compliance & Scanning

Chef InSpecOpenSCAPProwlerScoutSuiteCloudSploitDependency-TrackGrypeSBOM tools

SIEM/SOAR

Splunk Enterprise SecurityELK SecurityWazuhTheHiveCortex XSOARSecurity Onion

Vulnerability Management

SnykAqua TrivyGrypeNessusQualysRapid7NucleiOWASP Dependency-Check

Zero Trust & IAM

Cloudflare Zero TrustBeyondCorpOktaAuth0KeycloakAWS IAMAzure ADSPIFFE/SPIRE

Supply Chain Security

SigstoreCosignin-totoSLSANotaryTUFSBOM generationArtifact signing

Key Achievements

  • Implemented shift-left security in CI/CD pipelines
  • Reduced CVE remediation time by 80% through automation
  • Achieved SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 compliance
  • Built zero-trust architecture for 500+ services

Technology Stack

Comprehensive expertise across modern cloud-native technologies

Languages

GoPythonTypeScriptJavaScriptRustJavaBashPowerShellHCL

Cloud Providers

AWSAzureGCPCloudflareDigitalOceanLinodeVultr

Cloudflare Platform

PagesWorkersR2D1KVDurable ObjectsQueuesStreamImagesVectorizeAI GatewayHyperdriveWorkers AIWAFZero TrustAccessGatewayTunnelDNSLoad BalancingArgoSpectrum

HashiCorp Stack

TerraformTerraform CloudTerraform EnterpriseVaultConsulNomadPackerWaypointBoundaryVagrantHCP

Kubernetes Ecosystem

kubectlHelmKustomizeArgoCDFluxCDIstioLinkerdCalicoCiliumKEDAPrometheus OperatorCert-ManagerExternal DNSIngress NGINXGateway APIOPA/GatekeeperKyvernoFalcoLensk9s

Fastly Platform

Fastly CDNCompute@EdgeImage OptimizerLoad BalancerWAFDDoS ProtectionReal-time StatsLog StreamingVCLEdge DictionaryEdge ACL

Orchestration

KubernetesDocker SwarmNomadApache MesosECSRancher

IaC Tools

TerraformAnsiblePulumiCloudFormationCDKCrossplane

CI/CD

GitHub ActionsGitLab CIJenkinsCircleCITravisDroneArgoCDFluxCDTekton

Databases

PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBCassandraRedisElasticsearchDynamoDBConsul KVetcd

Message Queues

KafkaRabbitMQAWS SQS/SNSAzure Service BusNATSCloudflare Queues

CDN/Edge Computing

Cloudflare CDNFastly CDNAkamaiAWS CloudFrontAzure CDNCompute@EdgeWorkers

Security & Secrets

HashiCorp VaultConsulSOPSSealed SecretsOPAFalcoSnykAquaTwistlockCloudflare WAFFastly WAFAWS Secrets ManagerAzure Key VaultGCP Secret Manager

DevSecOps

SonarQubeSnykCheckmarxVeracodeTrivyGrypeSemgrepCodeQLOWASP ZAPFortifyAqua SecuritySysdigPrisma CloudClairAnchore

Policy & Compliance

OPA/GatekeeperKyvernoHashiCorp SentinelCheckovtfsecTerrascanChef InSpecOpenSCAPProwlerScoutSuiteCloud Custodian

Runtime Security

FalcoTraceeTetragonCiliumCalico EnterpriseAppArmorSELinuxSysdig Secure

SIEM & Threat Detection

Splunk Enterprise SecurityELK SecurityWazuhTheHiveCortex XSOARSecurity OnionNuclei

Supply Chain Security

SigstoreCosignin-totoSLSANotaryTUFSBOM toolsDependency-Track

Service Mesh

IstioLinkerdConsul ConnectAWS App MeshEnvoyTraefik

Monitoring & Observability

PrometheusGrafanaELKDataDogNew RelicCloudflare AnalyticsFastly Real-time StatsJaegerZipkinTempo

Impact & Results

Proven track record of delivering measurable results

10+
Years of Engineering Excellence
50TB+
Daily Traffic Managed
5TB+
Daily Log Processing
40%
Average Cost Reduction
99.99%
Uptime Achieved
1000+
Deployments Automated Daily
200+
Services Migrated to Cloud
24/7
System Reliability

Engineering Philosophy

Modern practices for reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure

Infrastructure as Code First

  • 100% reproducible infrastructure
  • Version controlled everything
  • Immutable infrastructure patterns

Security by Design

  • Zero-trust architecture
  • Secrets management automation
  • Compliance as code

AI-Augmented Operations

  • Intelligent alerting & anomaly detection
  • Predictive scaling
  • Automated incident response

Cost-Optimized Engineering

  • FinOps best practices
  • Resource right-sizing
  • Spot instance optimization

Services & Capabilities

Comprehensive solutions for modern infrastructure challenges

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • Cloud migration strategy & execution
  • Multi-cloud architecture design
  • Disaster recovery planning
  • High-availability system design

DevOps & Automation

  • CI/CD pipeline architecture
  • Infrastructure as Code implementation
  • GitOps transformation
  • Development environment standardization

Kubernetes & Containers

  • Kubernetes cluster design & deployment
  • Container orchestration strategy
  • Service mesh implementation
  • Microservices migration

AI/ML Operations

  • LLM infrastructure setup
  • AI agent development & deployment
  • Vector database architecture
  • ML model serving pipelines

Observability & Reliability

  • Monitoring & alerting design
  • Performance optimization
  • Incident response automation
  • SRE practice implementation

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Location
Austin, Texas

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