Brian Carey
Systems Architect at KISS IT Consulting
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Carey is a Systems Architect with 11+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating infrastructure and building software, known for applying the KISS principle to deliver simple, maintainable solutions. He has deep cross-platform expertise across UNIX (RHEL, CentOS, FreeBSD, Solaris), Windows, on-prem SANs (Dell, EMC, Fibre Channel/iSCSI) and cloud providers including AWS and Rackspace with autoscaling. Equally comfortable writing LAMP apps (CodeIgniter, Laravel, PHP), Perl and Bash automation, he routinely blends development and DevOps to streamline deployments and observability. As founder of KISS IT Consulting he has supported startups and Fortune 500 clients, leading storage architecture, custom analytics platforms, and medical-device backups. Beyond tooling, he focuses on process improvement, change management and documentation to make systems operable by small teams. Based in Pittsburgh, he brings a rare mix of low-level systems knowledge and pragmatic application development that keeps critical services reliable and simple to manage.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, A, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, A at California University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (24)
codeigniter10
php9
clamav9
php-library9
asset-management6
sbt-plugin6
php-extension6
redis-cluster6
jquery-plugin6
redis6
ansible5
sbt5
keydb5
invalidation4
open-source4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kissit/php-clamav-scan
Jun 2017 - Jan 2021
A simple PHP library for ClamAV that is CodeIgniter compatible
Contributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 8 months
clamavcodeigniterphp-libraryphp
kissit/kiss-ops
Aug 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:71 commits, 70 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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