Brian Valerio

About Brian Valerio

Engineering leader with 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating cloud-first, distributed systems at scale. Proven track record of shipping high-availability, performance-critical applications supporting real-time and batch digital data workloads. Experienced in leading teams through greenfield development, large-scale migrations, and legacy system deprecation, with deep ownership of production reliability, operational excellence, and long-term system evolution.*Designed and shipped scalable, distributed services on AWS supporting TPS and uptime requirements*Led end-to-end delivery of cloud-native applications, including architecture, implementation, deployment, and long-term maintenance*Implemented best practices, including CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, alerting, on-call rotations, and incident response strategies *Hands-on experience building big data pipelines, including Apache Spark (Scala) for batch and real-time processing; personally authored >1K ETL jobs *Strong background in data modeling, reliability engineering, and operating mission-critical systems in production

Experience

1. Software Development Manager

   Amazon

   Nov 2022 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Managing teams of 10-15 engineersOwned many tier-1 and/or critical servicesDelivered GenAI features to commercial-grade applicationsLeading Native-AI retrofit of software development lifecycleLauched omnichannel cross-brand promotionsDelivered critical functionality to enable 1-hour grocery delivery on Amazon.comSuccessfully onboarded into new teams and complex business domains multiple times in rapid succession, establishing technical direction, aligning stakeholders, and delivering scalable systems despite high ambiguity

Education

• The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business

  B.S.B.A, Operations Management

  2007 — 2010

• University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General

  2015 — 2018

Skills

• Supply Chain Management
• Lean Manufacturing
• Operations Management
• Sku Management
• Team Building
• Management
• Six Sigma
• Demand Planning
• Forecasting
• Microsoft Excel
• Demand Forecasting
• Value Stream Mapping
• Process Improvement
• Inventory Analysis
• Inventory Management
• Inventory Control
• Merchandising
• Access
• Supply Chain Optimization
• Communication
• Assortment
• Supply Chain
• Retail
• Cpfr
• Analysis