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BGarber42/README.md

Brent Garber — Senior Backend & Cloud Engineer ☁️⚙️🔐

I design and operate highly available, fault-tolerant platforms on AWS. My focus: production-grade IaC, secure-by-default CI/CD, and backend services that scale. I blend DevOps and security to boost performance and developer velocity, and I enjoy mentoring engineers to uplevel teams.


🔧 Core Strengths

  • AWS (EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM) • Terraform • Docker • GitHub Actions
  • Backend: Python, SQL • PostgreSQL • Elasticsearch
  • DevOps: CI/CD • GitOps • Platform Engineering
  • Security: Platform Security • Secure SDLC • Data Encryption

🚀 Recent Impact

  • Increased deployment reliability and modularity by defining platform-wide DevOps standards
  • Slashed deployment times via containerization (Docker) and GitOps tooling
  • Achieved 99.9% uptime on backend services; instrumented code to catch performance bottlenecks early
  • Standardized Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to automate platform provisioning end-to-end
  • Reduced build times with new CI/CD architecture; mentored teams to adopt best practices
  • Improved threat detection and reduced incidents; overhauled incident response for resilience
  • Boosted team efficiency by 20% through platform automation and improved dev standards

🧭 Experience

  • DeepSeas — Platform Specialist / Back End Engineer
  • Booz Allen Hamilton — Lead Technologist / Back End Engineer / Staff Engineer
  • HRsmart — Software Architect

🔒 Clearances

  • Public Trust — U.S. Department of the Treasury (adjudicated, formerly active)
  • Secret — U.S. Military Contract (adjudicated, formerly active)

🌱 Outside of Work

I’m usually exploring new infra tools or automating random things at home. Outside tech, I’m into gardening, scuba diving, and experimenting in the kitchen.


📫 Let’s connect: [email protected] • New York, USA
Open to senior Backend, Cloud, Platform, and DevOps roles.

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