Hi, I'm Brian —

I design and build cloud-native platforms.

Senior Cloud Solutions Architect in Germany, consulting on Azure and Google Cloud — with 15+ years across DevOps and software engineering behind it. This site also holds my cookbook and everything else I do off the clock.

Work

Cloud architecture, end to end

From strategy through implementation and optimization — planning and managing medium- to enterprise-scale cloud deployments, and bridging the gap between stakeholders and engineering teams.

>10×platform growth guided as lead architect
−95%global response times after DNS & CDN migration
10,000+daily CI jobs on Kubernetes build infrastructure
15+customers guided through cloud adoption
TEQWERK GmbH2022 — present

Enterprise cloud architecture

Senior Cloud Solutions Architect

  • Lead cloud architect for a global, enterprise-scale manufacturing analytics platform through more than tenfold growth — balancing modernization, cost, and security.
  • Migrated a legacy SaaS infrastructure to a Kubernetes-based cloud-native architecture, cutting customer onboarding from days to seconds.
  • Led the migration of global e-commerce and financial web properties to modern DNS and CDN solutions, reducing response times by up to 95%.
tappz GmbH2025 — present

AI product infrastructure

Cloud Software Architect

  • Led the technical expansion of an AI app with 10M+ users to a multi-platform architecture, redesigning user, subscription, and storage systems.
  • Oversaw and supported the development team building a next-generation AI chat web application.
IAV GmbHuntil 2021

Private cloud & DevOps platform

Lead DevOps Engineer · Software Engineer

  • Designed and implemented IAV's private cloud offering: on-premise, ML-enabled Kubernetes, Ceph, and DevOps infrastructure.
  • Built the central Kubernetes build infrastructure handling 10,000+ jobs daily; drove enterprise-wide adoption of public and hybrid cloud.

Certifications

Azure Solutions Architecture Expert · Google Professional Cloud Architect

Education

B.S. Computer Engineering & B.A. German, University of Rhode Island — summa cum laude

Core skills

Kubernetes & Docker · DevOps toolchains · TypeScript, C#, Go · React & Next.js

Languages

English (native) · German (fluent)