Bryan Culver

Network to Code, LLC

Director of Product Engineering
June, 2024 — Present

• Align intersection between open-source platform, extensibility, and SaaS offerings into new initiatives such as Kubernetes-native automation.
• Reduced inter-dependent team delivery times by 50%, spearheading AI-enhanced developer productivity research.
• Introduce company-wide cost-savings initiatives, saving 30% of run-time costs.
• Lead and mentor eight junior to principle level engineers across three teams on their career journeys.
• Conduct quarterly roadmap and leadership planning meetings, bringing remote teams together for collaboration.
• Responsible department-wide organization structure, including relationship with vendors and contractors.

Engineering Manager - Nautobot Cloud
October, 2023 — June, 2024

• Lead team up the low-functioning to high-functioning ladder by shifting to well-run Scrum ceremonies and retrospectives.
• Establish feature and service delivery on bi-weekly cadences, through streamlined reviews and prioritizing automated testing.
• Bridge collaboration across engineering and day 2 operations, reducing mean time to resolution by 80%.
• Champion end-user mindset, creating weekly customer-focused feedback sessions to improve product quality.

Engineering Manager - Nautobot
January, 2022 — October, 2023

• Led a 6-person team with structured touch-points, feedback-driven assessments, and autonomy.
• Shaping product development of Network to Code open source projects, including the Nautobot project.
• Execute growth in productivity and output by continuously improving maturity in our product backlog and Agile practices.
• Designed company's first per-department-focused anonymous retrospective, uncovering opaque satisfaction issues.

Managing Consultant
April, 2020 — January, 2022

• Led and mobilized 10-person teams through clear visioning, feedback-driven reviews, empathy, empowerment, and agency.
• Consult for teams of 15+ members on best-practices pertaining to automated testing, SDLC, documentation, security foundations, process management.
• Engage the growth and best-fit resource planning of teams across the company during multi 100%+ YOY growth.
• Product ownership for a Fortune 50 enterprise automation transformation project.
• Manage project and client relations on $2M+ projects around network automation.
• Executed over 30 global, multi-data center releases, in day-time roll-out strategies.

Senior Network Automation Consultant
March, 2019 — April, 2020

• Reorganized change documentation and release management processes to cut development-to-release cycle time by 50%.
• Presented three technical and non-technical presentations around voice-based automation and enterprise consulting.
• Exhibited technical leadership for modernizing testing, release, documentation, and software delivery pipelines, specializing in the financial network infrastructure sector.
• Established triage-and-document procedures for Tier 3 or higher production operations, and incident response.

ThoughtWorks

Software Consultant
August, 2018 — March, 2019

• Senior architect and technical manager of function-specific end-user facing shopping platform of a Fortune 25 B2C retail company.
• Facilitated internal developer relations of 15+ member teams, cutting down blocker resolution time by 75%.
• Streamlined automated testing (contract, functional, integration, smoke, unit) pipelines, improving testing times by 25%.
• Troubleshoot Tier 2, Tier 1 incidents in a follow-the-sun support model.

Make Fix Know, LLC

Freelance, Founder
February, 2017 — August, 2018

• Project manager for concurrent software development projects, including SaaS applications and cryptographic-based solutions.
• Managed five direct technical and non-technical peers and project-based sub-contractors.
• Performed as fractional CTO for four venture companies during funding rounds.
• Architected adoption of standardized CI/CD practices, data-processing pipelines, and faster time-to-delivery via rapid-prototyping frameworks.

TelNet Worldwide

Systems Engineer
March, 2015 — February, 2017

• Architected an end-to-end service provisioning systems with web-based user interface and REST APIs, reducing provisioning process time by 90% and error rate by 50%.
• Implemented a self-service customer portal with modern standard for voice-call functionality integrated with legacy phone systems.
• Upgraded security infrastructure to support two-factor authentication, reverse-proxy protection, DNSSEC, single sign-on, federated access, fraud mitigation, and compliance.
• Administered LAN and WAN network infrastructures across three data centers.

Grid4 Communications

Senior Director of Information Systems
May, 2011 — February, 2015

• Setup and maintained network automation, infrastructure, virtualization, and IT systems.

Leadership, and Product Management

Team Lead, Product Management, Agile Methodologies, Technical Mentoring, Client Relations, Founder Experience, Fractional CTO, Startup Consulting, Jira, Confluence, Miro, Zenhub

Technologies and Languages

Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Kotlin, Rust, React, Swift, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, OpenShift, Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, Redis, SQLite

Operations

Performance and Cost Optimizations, Establishing and Improving Service Metrics (SLO, SLA, etc.), Fraud Mitigation and Compliance Enforcement

Oakland University

Bachelor Degree, Computer Science, 3.5

Managing Yourself and Leading Others Training

Harvard Division of Continuing Education

Issued Feb 2021, Verification Upon Request