Brad R.
Head of Developer Tools, Training, and Data Lake @Amazon
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WORK HISTORY
Head of Developer Tools, Training, and Data Lake @Amazon
Newport Beach, CA, US
Head of the Developer Tools, Training, and Data Lake (125 SDMs, SDEs, DEs, TPMs) providing Amazon\'s global training and collaboration tools for 98K software builders. Notable success building the vision and strategy of seven teams over ten years including: Fraud & Compliance, Website Reliability, Developer Data Management & Governance, Data Security & Serialization, Knowledge Management, Infrastructure Efficiency, Software Builder Training. Data Management & Governance: Built Amazon\'s Developer Data Lake focused on driving developer efficiency and operational excellence Risk Remediation: Track record of building software to identify and remediate security risk, targeting fraud, compliance, customer facing errors, and infrastructure efficiency. Monitored over $160B in financial activity while having detected and prevented $34M in anomalous activity (potential fraud/abuse) over a five year period. People Leadership: Recruited 85+ builders over 10 years while promoting 32 SDE/SDM/TPMs including 8 Sr. Mgr and Principal Engineers. Cross-Organizational Collaboration: Influence leadership across Amazon.com and AWS businesses with written narratives and statistical analysis to drive improvements in software development velocity. Foster Innovation: Providing psychological safety to teams, encouraging innovation and ability to fail fast. Infrastructure Efficiency: Identified and drove $500M in infrastructure efficiency opportunities, that led to funding 60 headcount (six teams) Business strategy: Developed 7 organizations from scratch, providing the vision, mission, tenets, roadmap and goals, turning them into self-sustaining entities Software Development: Hands-on experience leading all stages of system development efforts, including requirements definition, design, architecture, configuration, testing, and support.
EDUCATION
University of California, Santa Barbara
Bachelors, Computer Science
SANS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE
Masters of Science, Information Security Management
University of California, Santa Barbara
Bachelor of Arts Degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General
ABOUT BRAD R.
Head of Amazon\'s Developer Tools/Training (supporting 98K engineers) and Operational Excellence with 20+ years experience building organizations, defining strategy/vision, and driving business outcomes. • 12 years experience managing globally distributed teams (org size 120+) • Responsible for enterprise architecture strategy and driving developer efficiency • Built Amazon\'s Developer Data Lake to measure and improve operational excellence • Recruited teams up to a 125 person organization including hiring multiple Sr. Mgrs and Principals • Promoted 32 SDEs, TPMs, SDMs • Created Amazon’s Global Internal Fraud & Compliance program • Developed Amazon’s Website Reliability infrastructure services Most recently, built the Engineering Knowledge Growth (EKG) organization for Amazon, encompassing the strategy, design and development of Amazon\'s company-wide software training and knowledge management tools. My engineering teams are responsible for Amazon\'s internal collaboration tools such as Wiki, Sage (internal Q&A), Broadcast (videos), and enterprise internal search. Our tools support 98K software builders across the globe. I\'m passionate about software/data engineering, people development, and building a long term vision that provides business value and improves employee retention and engagement. Experience creating annual planning, roadmap, goals, and leading monthly/quarterly business reviews with executive leadership. My success is measured by business outcomes and the development of individuals on my team through achievements in their career. Key Contributions: • Built Amazon\'s Infrastructure Efficiency team, saving over $500M in annual infrastructure costs. • Built Amazon.com\'s Website Reliability team, reducing customer-facing errors by 50%(100M to 47M) and improving availability • Developed an Internal Fraud & Compliance Program and Engineering Organization monitoring over $160B annually in transactions world wide and preventing $47M in anomalous activity. CORE COMPETENCIES: Director of Engineering | AWS | DevOps | Cloud Computing | SDLC | Data Management | Data Governance | Java | SQL | People Management | Security Risk & Mitigation | Data Pipelines | Security Architecture Design | Threat Modeling | Recruiting & Team Building | Enterprise Program Management | Application Security | Patch Management | Technical Training | Data Lake & Lifecycle | Disaster Recovery Planning | Scalable Web Services
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