Brian Stringham

Senior DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of experience supporting high-scale cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD systems, and distributed backend services across adtech, SaaS, and cloud-native environments. Strong background in AWS, Terraform, Docker, GitHub Actions, and infrastructure automation, with hands-on experience improving deployment reliability, observability, and system resilience for customer-facing production systems. Known for modernizing unstable delivery pipelines, reducing operational friction for engineering teams, and solving messy production issues in fast-moving environments where uptime and release velocity both mattered.

Senior DevOps Engineer at Visionary Solutions (2022-02 – Present)

• Led migration efforts for several internal advertising delivery services into containerized Kubernetes environments, reducing deployment rollback incidents by 27% and improving release consistency across multiple engineering teams.
• Automated CI/CD workflows using DroneCI, CircleCI, and GitHub Actions, helping engineers ship ad-serving configuration updates safely without waiting on manual QA verification every cycle.
• Built Python-based validation and alerting pipelines that monitored real-time trafficking anomalies inside ad operations systems, catching 30+ production issues daily before campaigns were affected.
• Reworked deployment orchestration for content APIs and ad-serving workloads, cutting average deployment times from nearly 40 minutes down to under 11 minutes during peak release windows.
• There were weeks where traffic spikes hit unexpectedly during major campaigns. Tightening autoscaling behavior and cleaning up noisy alerts made overnight incidents much less chaotic for the team.
• Improved reliability of an internal React/TypeScript configuration platform used by 65+ publishing brands, simplifying ad library rollouts and reducing operational support requests significantly.
• Partnered closely with backend engineers to stabilize distributed services handling high-volume content delivery traffic, resulting in measurable uptime improvements and fewer customer escalation tickets.

Senior DevOps Engineer at Kri8ed Media Group (2019-11 – 2022-01)

• Managed cloud infrastructure supporting high-traffic programmatic advertising systems, focusing heavily on system reliability, latency reduction, and production monitoring.
• Tuned client-side integrations and backend delivery configurations that lowered request latency by roughly 150ms while maintaining stability during major traffic surges.
• Helped modernize deployment and observability workflows by introducing centralized logging and automated infrastructure health checks across several distributed application environments.
• Worked directly with ad operations and analytics teams on multivariate testing infrastructure, improving engagement metrics and increasing click-through performance on revenue-generating placements.
• A lot of troubleshooting ended up being detective work across logs, browser behavior, and infrastructure metrics rather than a clean "one-service" fix.
• Optimized page delivery architecture and caching strategies that improved overall platform responsiveness while supporting millions of monthly ad impressions.
• Contributed to platform uptime improvements reaching 99.99% reliability by debugging unstable ad-serving dependencies and reducing cascading failures during traffic bursts.

DevOps Engineer at Stellar Web Production (2018-05 – 2019-10)

• Supported infrastructure and deployment pipelines for a large-scale publishing platform serving more than 42 million monthly readers across multiple content properties.
• Built internal monitoring utilities that tracked performance degradation across frontend delivery systems, helping engineering teams identify infrastructure bottlenecks faster during production incidents.
• Assisted in rollout automation for advertising and content delivery workflows using containerized deployment practices and scripting tools.
• Worked with BI and ad operations teams on A/B testing systems tied to monetization performance, improving campaign efficiency and helping increase advertising revenue.
• Some older services had almost no documentation, so a decent amount of the work involved reverse-engineering deployment behavior before stabilizing it properly.
• Improved operational visibility through better alerting coverage and deployment reporting, reducing time-to-detection during customer-facing outages.

DevOps Engineer at GoldTree Marketing (2017-01 – 2018-04)

• Developed client-facing reporting and automation tools for digital advertising operations using Python and backend scripting workflows.
• Helped deploy custom header bidding and server-to-server advertising integrations while troubleshooting production delivery failures across partner systems.
• Maintained Linux-based cloud environments and supported infrastructure updates for customer-facing monetization platforms.
• Assisted with performance optimization initiatives that improved system responsiveness and reduced failed ad requests during peak traffic windows.
• Worked across both infrastructure and application support because the engineering team was small and responsibilities overlapped frequently.

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science – Arizona State University (2013 – 2016)