Brian Smith
Principal SRE - Team Lead at Red Hat
Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Smith is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer and team lead with decades of IT experience who now focuses on building resilient, FedRAMP-compliant cloud platforms at Red Hat. He architects and operates regulated AWS and GovCloud environments, led the FedRAMP ATO/JAB SSP effort, and has scaled SRE teams while codifying SOPs and runbooks to make 24/7 reliability repeatable. Comfortable across Linux, Kubernetes, Terraform, Concourse, and the major clouds, he combines hands-on incident response with long-term architectural remediation of single points of failure. Earlier roles show a pattern of founding DevOps practices—migrating large repos, selecting CI/CD solutions, and automating platform pipelines—so he routinely turns fragmented systems into automated, auditable platforms. Outside work he’s an avid reader and amateur craftsman, bringing a practical, detail-oriented mindset to both technical design and team culture.
6 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Information Technology, B.S. Information Technology at Franklin UniversityCanal Winchester
Github Skills (49)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
observability10
grafana10
prometheus10
openshift10
multi-cluster10
thanos10
operator10
addon9
kubernetes-rbac9
minimum8
governance6
http-proxy6
nodejs5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
stolostron/klusterlet-addon-controller
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 162 commits, 99 PRs in 1 year 4 months
stolostron/postgres-mirror
Jan 2025 - Sep 2025
Band-aid mirroring script for postgres in ACM/MCE
Contributions:1 review, 45 PRs, 21 pushes in 8 months
postgresql
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