Career Profile

I'm particularly interested in automation, orchestration, and availability at scale. I also strongly believe in open source, the freedom of information, and universal broadband. I currently lead the Site Reliability Engineering practice at Place Exchange.

Projects

I have worked on a number of side projects, primarily workstation bootstraping for macOS and Ubuntu.

dotfiles - Ansible bootstrap and playbook for configuring a macOS workstation
ubuntu-bootstrap - Ansible playbook to create an end to end Ubuntu workstation from first boot
buymaster - A simple python script for reblancing a portfolio

Publications

My published works primarily focus on my deep interest and experience with Ansible and Kubernetes.

Building a Multi Tenant gRPC Development Platform with Ambassador and AWS EKS
Brian Annis
Hacker Noon
Scaling Ansible for IoT Deployments
Brian Annis
AnsibleFest Atlanta 2019

Skills & Proficiency

Ansible

Kubernetes

AWS

Jinja

Buildkite

Git

Python